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The 210 Archive
The 210 Archive is a photo project by JP Coakley, documenting the number 210 around the world.
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Sightings By Year
The busiest years were 2023 and 2025, with 22 sightings each. The quietest full year was 2016, with 3 sightings.
What I Was Carrying
Each dot is one sighting, placed on the year it happened. The archive doubles as a record of my consumer camera history.
The phone camera caught 175 of the 332 sightings, more than half, starting in 2008. The archive began with 35mm film, in 2002.
Keywords
The most common keyword is Games, on 34 sightings, followed by Time (30) and Movie/TV (28).
The Longest Droughts
The longest wait between sightings was 319 days, from August 17, 2004 to July 2, 2005. Most waits are short: half of them were 14 days or less.
Every Day Of The Year
Each sighting on its month and day, every year folded together.
Written the American way, 210 is a date: 2/10, February 10. The number has turned up on its own date three times, in 2004, 2009 and 2010. July 13 holds the most, six, five of them on one day in 2003.
Where It Happened
Every sighting on a map. Pinch to zoom and move with two fingers, or hold ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) and scroll, then drag with a mouse.
The map holds 193 sightings, from Inch, Ireland in the far north to Puerto Natales, Chile in the far south.
Countries
| Country | Sightings |
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The number has turned up in 23 countries. The United States leads with 257 sightings, 77% of the archive; China is next, with 14.
Cities
| City | Sightings |
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Across 102 cities, Silver Spring, MD leads with 45 sightings, followed by Washington, DC with 41.
The Weekend
Weekends hold 128 of the 332 sightings, 39%, though a weekend is only two days in seven. Sunday is the busiest day, with 66; Friday is the quietest, with 32.
To The Moon
A straight line from each sighting to the next. Scroll, and travel it one sighting at a time.
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Drawn straight from each sighting to the next, the line runs 244,861 miles, already past the Moon, 238,855 miles away.
Download The Data
Every sighting as a table: date, place, coordinates, capture medium, keywords, and the days since the one before. Off-screen captures carry no place.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it, even commercially, as long as you credit The 210 Archive. The photographs are not part of the data and are not covered by this license.
How the photographs became this data, and these charts: How This Was Made.
Stories
Keywords
How the number showed up: as a time, a measure, a price, a number in a circle, charted across the years. A photograph can carry several keywords at once, so it can appear in more than one row.
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