Oldest Cache That You Found...Active or Archive

armygreenx · Post by **armygreenx** » Thu 2011-06-23, 10:48:21

http://coord.info/GC184

State Game Lands #109 is now my oldest found cache. I still haven't even grabbed the oldest cache in Ohio. I should do that sometime...

GoodDog · Post by **GoodDog** » Sat 2011-06-25, 10:20:52

Mingo GC30
Supposedly the 7th placed cache ever and the oldest active cache in the world
Somewhere near Nowhere, Kansas.

Stumpy75 · Post by **Stumpy75** » Tue 2011-06-28, 20:44:55

Good thing you found MINGO when you did!

TeamMina · Post by **TeamMina** » Tue 2011-06-28, 21:41:21

So what is the next oldest active cache after "Mingo"?

Handyman-N-Fam · Post by **Handyman-N-Fam** » Tue 2011-06-28, 22:06:04

TeamMina wrote:So what is the next oldest active cache after "Mingo"?

GC12 was placed the day after Mingo.
After GC12 is Beverly, one day later.
Here is a list of the oldest 10 caches.

GoodDog · Post by **GoodDog** » Wed 2011-06-29, 11:52:25

So why is gc 30 placed before gc12? What's with the numbering system. ?

Stumpy75 · Post by **Stumpy75** » Wed 2011-06-29, 13:19:11

When the earliest numbering system was converted to the current one, the early caches were renumbered by state, not when they were placed. Not even sure they did the states alphabetically! Maybe GG can shed some more light on this.

Handyman-N-Fam · Post by **Handyman-N-Fam** » Wed 2011-06-29, 13:56:18

Keystone wrote: The reason why the codes are out of order is because Jeremy assigned the first batch of GC Codes by State rather than by Date Hidden when he set up the initial Geocaching.com database in September 2000.

From what I can tell, they started on the west coast, and worked their way east.

scuba · Post by **scuba** » Thu 2011-06-30, 16:38:13

I can finally post here. I just got back from a vacation with the grandkids and planned it so I could get this cache "Mingo" hidden on 5-11-2000 , the oldest still active cache. I found it on 6-19-2011

SuchaNana · Post by **SuchaNana** » Sat 2011-07-09, 12:02:09

scuba wrote:I can finally post here. I just got back from a vacation with the grandkids and planned it so I could get this cache "Mingo" hidden on 5-11-2000 , the oldest still active cache. I found it on 6-19-2011

congrats Scuba - great memories for the grandkidzzz too...

styx · Post by **styx** » Wed 2011-10-19, 00:54:26

CenTex Prime 12-17-2000 (GCEF) - just got back from San Antonio and this was on the list of things to do!

Team_Maltese · Post by **Team_Maltese** » Wed 2011-10-19, 01:10:26

We logged GC30 - Mingo in early September before it went missing, then grabbed the oldest in Iowa on the drive home.
We hadn't thought of looking for the oldest caches until Handyman mentioned Mingo, so a big thanks to Russ!

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