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093 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 : 10/25/2016
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 St. Croix county. St. Croix County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 84,345. Its county seat is Hudson. The county was created in 1840 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1849. St. Croix County is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Between 2000 and 2010, it was the fastest-growing county in Wisconsin. Here are a few stats about St. Croix County, courtesy of Wikipedia. You can learn more about St. Croix county at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Croix_County,_Wisconsin

This county's oldest geocache is GCCDBA LAAAHDEE FROCK-N-DAH!!!!!, placed by El Bastardo.

You will find this cache at N44 34.ABC W90 02.DEF

A: St. Croix County was created on August A, 1840 by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory.

B: The county has a total area of 73B square miles.

C: On June 12, 18C9, a deadly F5 tornado struck New Richmond.

D & E: The tornado killed 11D people in St Croix, Polk and Barron Counties, E4 in New Richmond alone.

F: The tornado's damage path was 3F0 yards.



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

CHECK SUM: A+B+C=18 D+E+F=13

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