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:
35.032314, -90.576494
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.
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 Saint Francis County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named New Home.
Within Arkansas, the name New Home is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Blount County
This New Home is located in Blount County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of New Home.
DeKalb County
This New Home is located in DeKalb County and lies 278 miles [447.4 km] to the east of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of New Home.
Florida
Walton County
This New Home is located in Walton County and lies 396 miles [637.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis 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 304 miles [489.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis 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 503 miles [809.5 km]<1> to the east of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis 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 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the west of the New Home that is located in Saint Francis 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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories 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:
Forrest City, which is the Seat of Saint Francis County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from New Home to Forrest City, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 97 miles [156.1 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 792 miles [1,274.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 31 days and walking would take 45 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,630 miles [10,670 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,355 miles [11,836.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,231 miles [8,418.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions 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: 35.0323, Longitude: -90.5765 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 316.115 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.317 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.573 degrees.