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040 WGA Geo-Art Mystery Cache

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association: On 11/30/2016, the WGA GeoArt was published. The 2022 Board of Directors along with BigJim60 who is the trailboss of this awesome GeoArt have made the decision to retire the WGA GeoArt starting 09/01/2023. Thank you to all that have made the trip, or multiple trips to find these 192 caches over the years.

The cache containers will be picked up and will not qualify for the WGA Cache Rescue game.

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Hidden : 10/15/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Welcome to the WGA Geo-Art Series! The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates. Please solve the puzzle below in order to find the final.

Wisconsin is made up of 72 counties, this cache is focused on Burnett County. Burnett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,457. Its county seat is Meenon with the majority of county governmental services located at the Burnett County Government Center. The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1865. Here are a few stats about Burnett County, courtesy of Wikipedia. You can learn more about Burnett county at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_County,_Wisconsin

This county's oldest geocache is GC841 VIK-01 placed by Viking Lander.

You will find this cache at N44 36.ABC W90 05.DEF

A : Burnett County was founded in 18A5

B: B = number of letters in the name of the largest village - 1

C: C = B

D: D = number of letters in the name of the County Seat divided by 2

E: The population of Burnett County in 2010 was E5,457

F: F = D



SOURCE: Most of the information on this page was obtained from Wikipedia's page about this Wisconsin county.

CHECK SUM: A+B+C=24 D+E+F=7

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