We just completed entering all of the rinks in Michigan, so now RinkAtlas.com includes over 950 rinks from Houghton, Michigan and Springdale, Arkansas east to the Atlantic Ocean. Next stop: Illinois.

A little while ago, RinkAtlas.com hit 1,000 rinks in its database. For the record, the 1,000th rink was Hoffman Estates Park District Community Center & Ice Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

We're about half done with Illinois now. The database contains now contains rinks in the following states (listed alphabetically):

• Alabama,
• Arkansas,
• Connecticut,
• Delaware,
• The District of Columbia,
• Florida,
• Georgia,
• Illinois [partial],
• Indiana,
• Kentucky,
• Louisiana,
• Maine,
• Maryland,
• Massachusetts,
• Michigan,
• Mississippi,
• New Hampshire,
• New Jersey,
• New York,
• North Carolina,
• Ohio,
• Pennsylvania,
• Rhode Island,
• South Carolina,
• Tennessee,
• Vermont,
• Virginia, and
• West Virginia.

We just finished entering over 100 rinks in the State of Wisconsin into the RinkAtlas.com database. This means that all of the rinks in states that are entirely east of the Mississippi River a re in the database.

So far 1,137 rinks are in our database.

We completed the entry of all rinks in USA Hockey's Central District. For those of you who are not familiar with the district boundaries, the Central District includes:

• Illinois
• Wisconsin
• Missouri
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Nebraska

This blog will probably go quiet for a while now, because we will be working on the entry of rinks in the State of Minnesota. There are almost 500 rinks in that state, when you count indoor and outdoor rinks.