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Probably the worse area is in Wyoming's Sweetwater County with one cave in its 10,492 square miles
Evan wrote:Probably the worse area is in Wyoming's Sweetwater County with one cave in its 10,492 square miles
Well .... it is mostly Granite and the core of the Rocky Mountains.
There are only a few very modest Mountains in Sweetwater County: Steamboat Mountain and Oregon Buttes the northern Red Desert and Aspen Mountain and others south of Rock Springs. Sweetwater County is high desert, not mountains, with little or no granite.
Ralph E. Powers wrote:It seems that a general consensus needs to be brought together at the national level so that a reliable count can be measured.
Scott Shaw wrote:Here are the latest stats for Alabama:
We are up to cave number 4270, but with numbers being retired due to duplicates and errors, the actual number of caves in Alabama is 4,165.
Some interesting facts:
Caves over 1-mile in length - 89
Caves 200' and deeper - 140
County with most caves - Jackson (1872 caves)
Definition of a cave in Alabama: 50' long or 50' in depth, or a combination of length plus depth totalling 50'.
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