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Name:jestjuggle
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Sunday, December 25, 2005

Geocache hides by state

I was curious as to how many geocaches have been hidden in each state. I did a state by state look up of geocaches. These could include events, virtuals, locationless and even archived caches, but it should give a realitive idea of geocaches in each state. The results are sorted alphabetically.

Alabama 1973
Alaska 739
Arizona 3819
Arkansas 1246
California 24266
Colorado 2655
Connecticut 1188
Delaware 278
District of Columbia 66
Florida 7473
Georgia 2842
Hawaii 440
Idaho 3360
Illinios 3517
Indiana 4289
Iowa 1486
Kansas 1478
Kentucky 2195
Louisiana 875
Maine 943
Maryland 1700
Massachusetts 2235
Michigan 4076
Minnesota 2808
Mississippi 891
Missouri 1743
Montana 1025
Nebraska 1250
Nevada 2300
New Hampshire 847
New Jersey 1985
New Mexico 1407
New York 5120
North Carolina 4077
North Dakota 229
Ohio 3835
Oklahoma 1723
Oregon 5862
Pennsylvania 5122
Rhode Island 305
South Carolina 1164
South Dakota 478
Tennessee 4602
Texas 10603
Utah 4737
Vermont 529
Virginia 2860
Washington 6682
West Virginia 662
Wisconsin 3457
Wyoming 726

3 Comments:

TPRJones said...

Interesting. Now you've got me curious about some stats (I'm including my state and yours on all these):

Top 10 states:
1 California 24266
2 Texas 10603
3 Florida 7473
4 Washington 6682
5 Oregon 5862
6 Pennsylvania 5122
7 New York 5120
8 Utah 4737
9 Tennessee 4602
10 Indiana 4289
...
35 Connecticut 1188
...
51 District of Columbia 66


Top 10 states in caches per 100 sq mi:
1 District of Columbia 96.70
2 New Jersey 22.76
3 Connecticut 21.43
4 Massachusetts 21.17
5 Rhode Island 19.74
6 California 14.82
7 Delaware 14.23
8 Maryland 13.70
9 Indiana 11.78
10 Florida 11.36
...
29 Texas 3.95
...
51 Alaska 0.11

Top 10 states in caches per 10,000 persons:
1 Idaho 25.97
2 Utah 21.21
3 Oregon 17.13
4 Wyoming 14.70
5 Alaska 11.79
6 Nevada 11.51
7 Montana 11.36
8 Washington 11.34
9 Vermont 8.69
10 Tennessee 8.09
...
24 Texas 5.08
...
39 Connecticut 3.49
...
51 District of Columbia 1.15

1:50 PM  
jestjuggle said...

Thanx for the additional analysis

2:24 PM  
jin said...

Thanks for the stats jestjuggle. I will be moving from GA to KY in the next 2 months, so these stats came in useful.

3:20 PM  

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