"Z" Welcome Signs Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By CacheUsIfYouCan on 03-May-02. Waypoint GC540B

Zimlisberg - found this Z-Ville in Switzerland. A small village in a pituresque country...
All the best for 2006 - and Good luck to waymarking.com

Zaca Station was a railroad stop and small community that today is a haven for ranches, vineyards and wineries, and rural life.

This is the site of the former village of Zimmerman, Ontario now part of Burlington, Ontario, Canada with the local Baptist church in the background.

On Christmas morning we took our dog to the beach.
On our way back we took a photo of the Welcome sign of the town Zandvoort.
In the background of the photo you can see the ocean.

The city also has an English website
http://www.info-zandvoort.nl/index.php4?eng

Team Whitey Sikk
Anja, Mark & White

We found Zwickau (Germany)
Today on our trip we drive through Zwickau (Germany).
My storage card didn´t work at the download from the welcome sign. We took a picture from the Internet. I hope that is o.k.


Some about Zwickau:
The home of 103 000 inhabitants, Zwickau is the Free State of Saxony’s fourth-largest city, surpassed in size only by Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. Situated on the river Mulde, this city is internationally known as the birthplace of the composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and the artist of the Brücke movement Max Pechstein (1881-1955). Zwickau is particularly committed to the legacy of its great sons. This becomes evident in the International Robert Schumann Piano and Song Competitions and the International Choir Competitions. The economic region of Chemnitz-Zwickau is among the most important growth regions in Saxony and the new German states.





Thanks for the cache

the gardeners
G-UNIT:

Zell/Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany
Mini Town with a great bar.

Greething from Germany

Darkghost

Zumikon is a little town near Zürich/Switzerland/Europe.

This is a little town called "ZOLLARSVILLE". We found this by accident while we were out geocaching. It is also called Old Zollarsville, and is located next to another town called West Zollarsville. They are all located in S.W. Pennsylvania. That is all that we we know about this town.

This makes kill # 208 for us, thanks for the hunt.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA

I found this "Z" Signs at a House in Germany, NRW, Velbert. The Z stand for welcome to Zassenhaus.
Greetings
Snowdream

Zittlestown, MD has no welcome sign, but it should have. It appears on both Map Quest and Terra Serve maps at N 39º 29.12 W 77º 37.43. My coordinates are for the street sign in the photo, west of Moser Rd. The town consists of a few scattered homes along alt. Rt. 40, (the National Road) and some farm buildings and a church down the steep hillside. However, Zittlestown is also the sight of the historic South Mountain Inn and Dahlgren Chapel, open to the public during the summer months. The AT runs crosses Rt. 40 nearby and Washington Monument State Park is only about a mile away. The battle of South Mountain, a preliminary to Antietam, was fought in the proximity. The town even has its own ghost, the Snarley Yow, the story of which can be accessed at http://wesclark.com/jw/s_yow.html

[This entry was edited by 'Possum on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 4:42:01 PM.]

Found that Z-Sign in the little village Zicherie, Lower Saxony, Germany. After WW2 the Village was divided by the German-German Border from its fellow neighbour village Boeckwitz. It´s been a shame! The villages were so close, that people in principle could have talk to each others, but had no chance to cross the fence. We are happy to see, that this is part of the past, and that after the reunification people can visit each others nowadays. Thanks to CacheUsIfYouCan for the cache. Always happy hunting!
Marcus

We found it in Zons, Germany.

Neanderwolf und die Meute

Zoe, Oklahoma is located in southeast Oklahoma in LeFlore County near the Arkansas border. While it has no official Welcome sign it can be found on most maps & as a town on the net. The only 2 things I could find with a name on it was the cemetery & a street sign. Even the Community Center has no name on it other than Community Center.
The community was named for Zoe Thomason. I think he may be a resident of the cemetery now.

Zebulon - located in Pike County, KY near the city of Pikeville, all named for Gen. Zebulon M. Pike.

zistl is situated in the upper-styria / austria. it's a very small mountain town. (elevation 948m)

greetz faustus

N 50° 01.525 E 007° 10.904
This is Zell(Moselle), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Here is the famus wine-growing district Zeller Black Cat (Zeller Schwarze Katz) located.

For further information please http://www.zellmosel.de/Wein.shtml

schmittinger & Chrissy

Zwischenbergen, a little small town in East Frisia, Northwest Germany, near Wiesmoor.
Today it´s raining and dark at 5:30 pm, sorry the photos are not so good.
The area is very flat here, almost pastureland and moor. Only a few hundred people lives in Zwischenbergen, most of them are farmers. Not recommend to live there...
Thanks for this nice locationless cache
Greetings from Cyberbär

I was driving back home after finding one cache when I pass along a sign that said "Zibreira". I thought what a funny name! It starts with a 'Z' I could log it! Zibreira is a tiny village near Torres Vedras, Portugal.
Thanx

We found Zorn and then whoosh it was gone!
TFTC
Chris, Penny, Logan and Liahm

Found it, accidentally on our way to the cache "Stroomdal I".


Great Honey Brown

Nice idea. Zittau is a small town in Germany. There is the 3-Lands-Corner with Poland and Chzech Republic.
Thanks for the Cache. die_zittauer

FOUND THIS ZTECH CAR AFTER MARKET SIGN IN EKYRIA OHIO...TFTC...RAGEXN!!!

Outro Zambujal, perto de S.Julião do Tojal.

Another Zambujal. Nothing very special to say about it. A suburb of a suburb of Lisbon.

Zambujal, Loures, Lisboa, Portugal

Las Zocas (zocas in english means vines or market place) is a small town in the south of Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain. There are however no wineyards around nor could the people tell me where the name comes from.
Thanks for the cache and
un saludo Paco

This the town of New Zion New Brunswick

Zavalla, Texas last stop for the day. It is just a dot on the road so you have to look for it.

The small town of Zelma, Saskatchewan, Canada. Stopped on my way home from a caching tour. It doesn't have a welcome sign but I took pictures of the cairn commemorating the Zelma school, the CN railroad sign and the highway sign.

This one is near Hannover, Germany.
I cannot tell you the whole name of Z-Town and its exact coordinates, for it is a mistery cache to find this town.
It is some miles away from the posted coordinates.

Thanks,
Pom

I found "Ziethen" (in Mecklenburg-Estern Pommerania, Germany) near the isle "Usedom".

near malibu, ca is ZUMA beach and zuma lagoon... check out the photos

Team The Lion Dordrecht (Netherlands)
Zwijndrecht City in the Netherlands.

Zutphen is a town in the East of the Netherlands, with a population of around 30 to 40.000 people. So it's a small city which has a great history because it's a trading city which is next to the river " De Ijssel". These kind of city where called in the early days (and still) "Hanzesteden".

Thanks for this funny cache!





[This entry was edited by S**** Frank on Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:22:51 PM.]

Wow, can ytou believe it, another place name with a Z in England! This is Zempson in Devon, a tiny hamlet just north-east of South Brent near Harbourneford. It is big enough to have an official signpost at Dean Cross, but the welcome sign leaves a little bit to be desired!

It's not famous for anything I'm afraid, apart from maybe being a place name in Devon beginning with Z that no-one knew existed!

Thanks for the cache,

Stuey #889

This picture was taken on the edge of the city of Zele, in the eastern part of flanders, Belgium.

Some historic facts :
Zele was first mentioned around 800 AD
when Charles the great donated the region to Sint-
Ludgerus, founder of the abbey of Werden (Essen,
Germany). The monks built a first church before 1141 AD.
Part of the village went up into flames in 1452 AD during the battle between rebels from the city of Ghent and the army of the Count of Flanders. The monks returned to Werden. The church burned again in 1485 AD. Between 1699-1704, the baroque church of Sint Ludgeruswas built.
Between WW1 and WW2, the city suffered little material damage. Once, Zele was a known textile centre. In the large industrial area (from the sixties on), there is a lot of variation: metal, textile, glass fibre,
food, print factories, construction and road building factories.
The city now has more than 20.000 inhabitants and has a surface of 3.305 hectare.

Found with Beerman-Qc in a geocaching day on this town

Saint-Zénon
Québec, Canada

population: 1 242

Superficie: 2488,69 Km2

found it with Mr. Gade06!

BMQc

This is not a pure welcome-sign, but it's a welcome guide- map sign. Here is ZhongZheng district, Taipei.(Not "ZhongZeng"[B)]) SanAi Li belongs to ZhongZhen District.

Here is ZINSWILLER in Alsace (France)

This time I got it !
1st time : to late, no light more for a picture
2nd time : right in time, but camera battery dead
3rd time : everything ok even an elastic in order to hold the GPS not forgotten !
If you want to go closer to ZINSWILLER go here : www.zinswiller.com

Daniel

Zuun is a locality situated near Brussels and is a part of St Pieters Leeuw in Vlaams Brabant, Belgium

Anne et Pierre

We found Zimmerdale, Kansas today.

Steve & Mary Brown
http://mysteve.com
Kansas City, MO
MOKan Geocaching Forum
http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php

This is the (very small) community of Zion located within the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario. Unfortuntaly, it's too small to merit a welcome sign, so we're hoping the church sign will be sufficient.

Zion is surrounded by farms, many of which are mennonite, and contains only a church and a mennonite school. It can also usually only be found on a good backroads map.

The town of Zaneis, Oklahoma is so small that they do not have a welcome sign. I am submitting pics of the consolidated school and church.

Zauchen by night...

Zena N.Y. in the Catskill area.

We found Zuidermeer, Noordholland, The Netherlands
It's a place about 7 km from our house in Obdam, Noordholland, The Netherlands.
My sister and her husband live there withe their two sons. It's a small place with about 480 citizens.


Greetings from team Geolukentjes

ZADNI CHODOV is a small town close to German border in West Bohemian region of the Czech Republic.
T4TC

Lifebook & Petra - CZ (Europe)

I found this Sign in a little dorp near kassel. The dorp calls Benkhausen. In the front from the picture is the sign from the dorp and in background thee official german Welcomesign.

TFTC

Greetings
Team Goldregen

This is the welcome sign from the aera of "Zentralschweiz" (aera Central of Switzerland), found it in the Brünig mountain.

We found this "Z" welcome sign in Zweibrücken Germany.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings Sarah and Christian
loboyloba

Zandwerven is the place where my father was born. It's a very-very small hamlet in The Netherlands.
greetings,

Team Geokunis2

Gabi took Zollbrücke, so we have to take Zäckericker Loose . That's a nice place very close to the Polish border.


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I found "Zuckerfabrik" ("Sugarfactory") in West-Brandenburg/Germany.It´s a very small village in the proximity of the "Oder" (border river to Poland).

Zell in Germany near Kempten.

This is the welcomesign of the beautifull town of Zutphen. This is my hometown, in the east of Holland, and I am very proud of it. Zutphen is chosen this year as the city with the most beautifull old towncenter of Holland. If you ever want to visit Zutphen you are welcome to stay with me and my family, and I will show you around in town.
Best regards, Theo Zutphen.

Zeigler, Illinois is a town of approximately 1700 in southern Illinois. It was once a coal mining town, but there are no longer any local coal industries.

In the north western part of The Netherlands is a village called Zwaagdijk-West. I was looking for a place in the neighbourhood with a quiet simular name when I found this one.

#79

bjorri, de reis is het doel.

ahoi
Zarpen is calling....
greetz
e!

Zuoz/Graubuenden/Switzerland

Small town with wonderful houses.

This is a welcome sign of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich is probably the largest city within Switzerland, with a population of more than 400'000.
Most city and village signs you will see when travelling in Switzerland have a white text on a blue background, because they are on major roads and probably you most often will use those.
This one has a black text and a white background, meaning that the sign is on a lower level road. The disadvantage, however, is, that it is hard to read, because the reflections are so strong.
Best regards, PicoKnirps

Addendum: Today, 24 Sep 2005, I made a photograph of the same welcome sign during daytime - it is much better readable, isn't it?

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Zabrusany - small town in north Bohemia, Czech republic

A very long time Zwentendorf was a complete unknown village in Austria. In 1977/78 there was built the first nuclear power station of Austria near this village. But at a very late time of the building progress the voices in Austria against nuclear power got louder and louder. Therefore on 5th of November 1978 a national referendum was held and Austria voted against the use of nuclear power with 50.47%. So the building process of the power station was stopped immediately and since this time stamp Austria has its own historic nuclear power station ruin which was never ever finished and used but as well never ever been broken down. You can still visit the place and have a look at the gigantic monument which lies peaceful in the fields near the Danube remembering at the fierce discussions of 1978.
This was the history how Zwentendorf became famous all over Austria and the neighbour countries in a very funny and unconventional way.

Happy Caching
Die Höhlenbären (Tina & Pezi)

Zig, Missouri
Russ and I did a search in Microsoft Mappoint to find this 'Z' town. We set out on a 400 mile trek to find its welcome sign. After traveling one-lane gravel and dirt roads, having to backtrack several times to due bridges being out, and having to move a newly killed deer out of the road - we found Zig - or where it used to be.
When we arrived, it was already dark, and we sat on the end of a gravel road re-verifying our coordinates.
As we were doing this, headlights from an ATV came up behind us, and a man asked if he could help us. Turns out that this man owns the 500 acres surrounding this road. We told him we were on a hunt for 'Zig'. He said that the town used to exist here with had a lumbermill as its hub. He said that we could contact Alfie Ziegler in Kirksville, who is a woman in her nineties who is a relative of the Zieglers who started the town. He pointed out Ziegler road, which is a street named for the Ziegler family who built the town and used to live here. A link to some history can be found here: http://library.truman.edu/manuscripts/zeigler.htm
After chatting with Frank for awhile, we learned that he left a career in photo journalism in order to raise prairie grasses and wildflowers, and if it had not been dark we would have seen a kalidoscope of colors around us.
He invited us to come back when we could better appreciate the beautiful scene of acres of wildflowers. A link to his web site can be found here:
http://frankoberle.com/

While we did not find an actual welcome sign, Russ and I did feel welcomed and enlightned, and plan to revisit we we could see it better.

Zaingrub is a small village in the "Waldviertel" which is the name of the north-western part of lower austria. Zaingrub is with it's "theaterstadl" a part of the "szene-bunte-wähne"-festival (www.sbw.at)

Found the town of Zenith in southern WV. Thanks for making me look.
Greg S., Severn MD

Zilwaukee Michigan USA

Zilly

Earlier someone has stated that there are only 3 places in SW England beginning with Z, but they ignored the 3 further SW, in Cornwall. The 2 better known ones, Zelah and Zennor have already been logged, but there is yet another village called Zoar, in Cornwall. If you were to visit Goonhilly Down Earthstation, with 20+ mega sattelite dishes, then about 3 miles further is this village. It has about 15 - 20 houses, and a garage, which is the only sign giving the name of the village. Visitted on 18/8/05 but had to wait to get photo developped, need to get digi camera fixed.

This is Zephyr, a town just north of Toronto Canada. The locals are refered to Zephyreans, and there are about 500 Zephyrean moogles. One of the industries I noticed was elk farming and llama sheering. Oddly enough, Zephyr has not only signs on the edge of town, but right at the center as well!

We claimed another 'Z' town a couple days ago, then found ourselves going right by Zoar Village, Ohio on I-77. Zoar was founded in the early 1800's by a group of Zoarists from Germany. Couldn't resist adding a Note for this place too. Here we are at the Zoar sign.

We found this little village of Graubünden in Switzerland.

The tiny village of Zoar in Dartmoor, Devon, South-West England. Consisting of only a couple of cottages, a farm, and a Methodist Church, Zoar is one of only three places beginning with the letter 'Z' in the whole of SW England (the other two Zeal Monachorum and South Zeal have already been logged!). After locating this website [URL=http://wwp.uk.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/europe/uk/england/county/devon/]here[/URL], stating all the towns and villages of Devon I was surprised to see another place beginning with Z, but on arrival the place was so little, the only sign I could find was on the church, hence why I've also included the link!
Many thanks,
The Hancock Clan

We found a nice wooden welcome sign "Welkom in Zillebeke, nearby Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Europe, Earth.

A resource for military historians, genealogists, and others with an interest in the Great War of 1914-1918. http://www.1914-1918.net/sacredground/ypres/zillebeke.htm

Zilzie, Queensland, Australia. There was ownly two towns we could find in Queensland beginning with 'Z', one had already been logged the other was 800km away. Luckily when a family reunion brought us near to Zilzie we were able to take the time to find a welcome sign.

Apparently M. Wilbraham had come over from Great Britain on the 'Royal Dane' in 1865 to see what sort of a land 'Queensland' was. He squatted on an area of land with approximately 6 miles of beachside frontage extending from Emu Park to Cawarral Creek. When he was recalled to the army he left the land in the charge of Lieutenant Colonel Armitage and disposed of the land a number of years later when he returned. This land is Zilzie.

Ziegelberg north of Munich in Germany. Ziegel means brick and Berg mountain. As you can see it's a very small village although it is older than 250 years.