GC5WVQ8 Detroit County - Letters From Home (Letterbox Hybrid) in Michigan, United States created by EmailsFromWork

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Hidden : 6/5/2015

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Parking for the caches in the "Letters From Home" series can be found at N43 02.850 W85 48.512 (Marne), N43 07.578 W85 52.886 (Conklin), and N43 11.031 W85 56.816 (Ravenna)

Cache is not located at the coordinates listed above. See below for further details

LETTERS FROM HOME	DETROIT COUNTY



Detroit County is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. The most populous county in the state. It is a primary business, cultural, financial and transportation center in the Southeast Michigan area, a region of 5.3 million people. It is a major port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Detroit County was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and a party of settlers.

The Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States in the early 20th century, and this trend only hastened in the 1950s and 1960s, with the construction of a regional freeway system. Detroit is the center of a three-county Urban Area (population 3,734,090, area of 1,337 square miles (3,460 km2), a 2010 United States Census) six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area (2010 Census population of 4,296,250, area of 3,913 square miles [10,130 km2]), and a nine-county Combined Statistical Area (2010 Census population of 5,218,852, area of 5,814 square miles [15,060 km2]). The Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000. The Detroit metropolitan region holds roughly one-half of Michigan's population. Known as the world's automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry. Detroit County's auto industry was an important element of the American "Arsenal of Democracy" supporting the Allied powers during World War II. It is an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions, beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport; The D; Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings); Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"); and The 313 (its telephone area code).

To find the geocache, you must follow these instructions: 1. Read through the description of Detroit County. 2. Let A = Fill in this statement: “a region of A.3 million people” plus 1. Let B = third digit of the last census year. Let C = first digit of the telephone area code. Let D = # of counties in the Combined Statistical Area. Let E = the last digit of the day the County was founded. 3. Travel at a bearing of 138.59 degrees for ABCDE feet. 4. You will find what you are looking for in the woods somewhere.

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For more on Detroit County visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit

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