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 Liberty:
37.122000, -88.447818
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 Liberty
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 Pope County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found sixteen communities that are also named New Liberty.
Within Illinois, the name New Liberty is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Calhoun County
This New Liberty is located in Calhoun County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the southeast of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of New Liberty.
Arkansas
Izard County
This New Liberty is located in Izard County and lies 201 miles [323.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Izard County community of New Liberty.
Georgia
Catoosa County
This New Liberty is located in Catoosa County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Catoosa County community of New Liberty.
Indiana
Clark County
This New Liberty is located in Clark County and lies 172 miles [276.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of New Liberty.
Iowa
Scott County
This New Liberty is located in Scott County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scott County community of New Liberty.
Kansas
Republic 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 Kansas community of New Liberty [Republic County].
Kentucky
Metcalfe County
This New Liberty is located in Metcalfe County and lies 151 miles [243 km]<1> to the east of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Metcalfe County community of New Liberty.
Owen County
This New Liberty is located in Owen County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km] to the east northeast of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owen County community of New Liberty.
Mississippi
Calhoun County
This New Liberty is located in Calhoun County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of New Liberty.
Missouri
Lincoln County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Lincoln County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of New Liberty.
Oregon County
This New Liberty is located in Oregon County and lies 157 miles [252.7 km]<1> to the west of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oregon County community of New Liberty.
Ohio
Columbiana County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Columbiana County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbiana County community of New Liberty.
Guernsey County
This community is historic and although located in Guernsey County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of New Liberty.
Oklahoma
Beckham County
This New Liberty is located in Beckham County and lies 638 miles [1,026.8 km]<1> to the west of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beckham County community of New Liberty.
Pennsylvania
Clearfield County
This New Liberty is located in Clearfield County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clearfield County community of New Liberty.
Texas
Cass County
This New Liberty is located in Cass County and lies 426 miles [685.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the New Liberty that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of New Liberty.
Curious and Interesting Names Near New Liberty ...
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 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 Liberty to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in New Liberty and extending to:
Golconda, which is the Seat of Pope County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from New Liberty to Golconda, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 194 miles [312.2 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 632 miles [1,017.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,444 miles [10,370.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,170 miles [11,539 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,047 miles [8,122.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- New Liberty) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Liberty 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 Liberty, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Liberty 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 Liberty. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1220, Longitude: -88.4478 In this case, the coordinates for New Liberty have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.881 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.175 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.193 degrees.