Bead-Uncertain Copper Gold Green Glass Circle TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 8-Dec-23 this trackable had survived for 8.5 years but it had been moved by only 20 cachers, for an average drop every 156 days, or 2.3 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it at an event, in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban, non-premium cache. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.

Uncertain, also known as Uncertain Landing, is on Caddo Lake in northeastern Harrison County. The site was once known as Uncertain Landing, so named, according to one local tradition, because of the difficulty steamboat captains in earlier days had in mooring their vessels there.  Another tradition has it that the town name came from the uncertainty that residents had about their citizenship before the boundary between the United States and the Republic of Texas had been established.  Caddo Lake straddles the border of Texas and Louisiana.  The latter uncertainty was a substantial benefit to residents who did not like paying taxes.  

In the early 1900s the site included a hunting, fishing, and boating society called the Uncertain Club.  During the 1940s the community had scattered dwellings, a sawmill, several camping lodges, and some five other businesses.  In a bid to promote tourism by providing an area with legal alcohol consumption, the community was incorporated as Uncertain in 1961.  That year many of its 213 citizens were fishing-camp operators. The population of Uncertain was estimated at 189 in 1988, and the town limits were irregularly shaped, as they were designed to include most of the restaurants and fishing camps along that part of the Caddo Lake shoreline.  Beer Smith's Caddo Lake Airport, known as the Fly and Fish, also lay within the boundaries of the community.  In 1990 the population of Uncertain was 194. The population was 150 in 2000.