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 Newcastle:
30.372184, -81.585649
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 Newcastle
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 Duval County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eighteen communities that are also named Newcastle.
Within Florida, the name Newcastle is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of eighteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Newcastle.
Arkansas
Saint Francis County
This Newcastle is located in Saint Francis County and lies 622 miles [1,001 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Francis County community of Newcastle.
British Columbia
This Newcastle lies 2,549 miles [4,102.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
California
Placer County
This Newcastle is located in Placer County and lies 2,303 miles [3,706.3 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Placer County community of Newcastle.
Illinois
Saline County
This Newcastle is located in Saline County and lies 645 miles [1,038 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saline County community of Newcastle.
Kansas
Cherokee County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Newcastle [Cherokee County].
Leavenworth County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Newcastle [Leavenworth County].
Maine
Lincoln County
This Newcastle is located in Lincoln County and lies 1,150 miles [1,850.7 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Newcastle.
Nebraska
Dixon County
This Newcastle is located in Dixon County and lies 1,195 miles [1,923.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dixon County community of Newcastle.
New Brunswick
This Newcastle lies 1,429 miles [2,299.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
Ohio
Coshocton County
This Newcastle is located in Coshocton County and lies 688 miles [1,107.2 km]<2> to the north of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coshocton County community of Newcastle.
Oklahoma
McClain County
This Newcastle is located in McClain County and lies 987 miles [1,588.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McClain County community of Newcastle.
Ontario
This Newcastle lies 949 miles [1,527.3 km]<2> to the north of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
Tennessee
Hardeman County
This Newcastle is located in Hardeman County and lies 552 miles [888.4 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardeman County community of Newcastle.
Texas
Young County
This Newcastle is located in Young County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Young County community of Newcastle.
Utah
Iron County
This Newcastle is located in Iron County and lies 1,887 miles [3,036.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iron County community of Newcastle.
Washington
King County
This Newcastle is located in King County and lies 2,442 miles [3,930 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Newcastle.
Wyoming
Weston County
This Newcastle is located in Weston County and lies 1,546 miles [2,488 km]<2> to the northwest of the Newcastle that is located in Duval County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weston County community of Newcastle.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Newcastle ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Newcastle to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Newcastle and extending to:
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 160 miles [257.5 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Newcastle to Tallahassee, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 642 miles [1,033.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 37 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,470 miles [10,412.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,148 miles [11,503.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,040 miles [8,111.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Newcastle 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Newcastle) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.3722, Longitude: -81.5856 In this case, the coordinates for Newcastle have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.515 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.199 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.07 degrees.