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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in New Home, we use the following websites to find information relevant to New Home and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for New Home:
    • 34.052875, -86.363038
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on New Home
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Blount County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Blount County
    • Since New Home is near Etowah County and also Marshall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Etowah County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marshall County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for New Home

Communities Also Named New Home ...

We found eleven communities that are also named New Home.

There is one other community in Alabama that is also named New Home.

Beyond Alabama, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • DeKalb County
      • This New Home is located in DeKalb County and lies 53 miles [85.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of New Home.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Saint Francis County
      • This New Home is located in Saint Francis County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francis County community of New Home.
    • Florida
      • Walton County
      • This New Home is located in Walton County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km]<1> to the south of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Walton County community of New Home.
    • Georgia
      • Dade County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of New Home [Dade County].
    • Michigan
      • Houghton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of New Home [Houghton County].
    • Missouri
      • Bates County
      • This New Home is located in Bates County and lies 533 miles [857.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bates County community of New Home.
    • North Carolina
      • Burke County
      • This New Home is located in Burke County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burke County community of New Home.
      • Cleveland County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Home [Cleveland County].
      • Surry County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Home [Surry County].
    • Texas
      • Hays County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of New Home [Hays County].
      • Lynn County
      • This New Home is located in Lynn County and lies 893 miles [1,437.1 km]<1> to the west of the New Home that is located in Blount County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lynn County community of New Home.

Curious and Interesting Names Near New Home ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Bird ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bird is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bird
  • Clarence
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Clarence is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarence
  • Craig
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Craig is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
  • Fridays Crossing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Fridays Crossing is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fridays Crossing
  • Highmound
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Highmound is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highmound
  • Hoods Crossroads
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hoods Crossroads is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoods Crossroads
  • Hopper
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Hopper is located in Etowah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopper
  • Moodys Chapel
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Moodys Chapel is located in Etowah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moodys Chapel
  • Nix ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Nix is located in Etowah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nix
  • Old Snead
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Old Snead is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Snead
  • Redbud
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Redbud is located in Etowah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbud
  • Susan Moore
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Susan Moore is located in Blount County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susan Moore
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 797 people
  • Walnut Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Etowah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 692 people

How Far From New Home to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as New Home to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in New Home and extending to:

  • Oneonta, which is the Seat of Blount County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from New Home to Oneonta, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 115 miles [185.1 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 615 miles [989.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,508 miles [10,473.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,217 miles [11,614.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,093 miles [8,196.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Home) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that New Home could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about New Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from New Home to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in New Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0529, Longitude: -86.3630       In this case, the coordinates for New Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.443 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.092 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.003 degrees.