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Areas Of High Cache Concentration: Where Is Mecca?


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N47 47.745

W122 20.662

 

Nearest Caches:

 

within 1 mile: 3

within 2 miles: 16

within 3 miles: 36

 

Is this a high concentration of caches? Does anyone know of a more concentrated area? I am curious to see other examples.

 

It's kind of a puzzle: how to determine the area of greatest cache density -- the Mecca of caching.

 

On the other hand, the "approvers" may not conisder this an appropriate topic -- to live in an area of high density may be considered a dubious distinction.

 

GO West

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Mecca = California and NJ as far as I know.

1 mile radius form me - 1 cache

2 mile radius - 2

3 mile radius - 9

100 mile radius 1966

 

That ought to keep me busy for a while

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I think Atlanta and Nashville both have very high concentrations of caches. Washington DC is up there, but they're mostly virtuals.

 

Northern New Jersey is certainly up there. I have 33 caches within 5 miles of my house. 76 within 10 miles. 244 within 20 miles and 2,221 within 100 miles. And the best part is that not many of these (at least the ones within 20 miles) are "drive and dumps". The majority are interesting hunts in nice areas.

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Well, the last time this came up, I posted some numbers in my August 9 response that may help decide. Yes, the actual numbers are likely somewhat stale by now, at it's skewed by my travel destinations, but there was a lot of legwork that went into that table that might make triage easier.

 

Last I looked, there were a couple of (overlapping) 5 mile circles in Nashville with over 120.

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Yeah Nashville has a high cache density.

...if gazillions of film canisters in parking lots hidden at the bases of light posts or magneted to the back of street signs count as "caches"... :)

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I traveled to Minneapolis earlier this summer and was surprised at the high number of caches there. Something like 432 within a 20 mile radius. None of the ones I saw were of the 'pill bottle in a lightpole' type, but many were full sized caches in parks. Cache density drops off quickly when you leave the suburbs, though.

 

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Tri-Valley (East SF Bay), CA area.

 

24 within 3 miles of my house.

58 within 5 miles.

202 within 10 miles.

520 within 20 miles.

3240 within 100 miles.

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I am not going to break any records here:

 

0 Caches within 1 mile of home

6 Caches within 5 miles (3 are mine)

24 Caches within 10 miles

48 Caches within 20 miles

117 within 50 miles

332 within 100 miles

978 within 500 miles

 

 

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I think Atlanta and Nashville both have very high concentrations of caches. Washington DC is up there, but they're mostly virtuals.

Check out the caches in Huntsville, AL area... pretty thick up there because of NASA & the space center!

 

Huntsville

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I don't think I'll ever find all of them within easy driving distance from me.

 

From center of Stanford University campus (half-way between San Francisco and San Jose, CA):

 

Within 1 mile: 6

 

Within 5 miles: 67

 

Within 10 miles: 207

 

Within 25 miles: 832

 

Within 50 miles: 1674

 

Within 100 miles: 2961

 

:)

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While not as high as some of the others listed here, there's a cache in Batavia, Illinois, that seems to be the epicenter of Chicago area caches. It helps that it was in the vicinity of our 2003 Annual Picnic.

 

Starting on the cache On the Right Side of the Tracks, the search looks like this:

 

Within 1 mile: 5

Within 3 miles: 39

Withing 5 miles: 52

Within 10 miles: 163

Within 50 miles: 844

Within 100 miles: 1,436

Within 150 miles: 2,795

 

Not bad for an area that has a major lake just 36 miles to the east.

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Mecca is on the Arabian Penninsula. Actually, I have a test on the Islamic culture on Wednesday. I think I should be able to tell you more.

 

North Orange County & Monterey are both good places.

 

For our cache, Squirel Creek:

 

1 mile - 6

5 miles - 53

10 miles - 174

15 miles - 288

100 miles - slightly upwards of 3,000 (this also includes San Diego)

 

Wacka, that's pretty impressive.

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