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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 Prospect, we use the following websites to find information relevant to New Prospect 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 Prospect:
    • 35.349576, -81.478144
    • 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 Prospect
  • 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 Cleveland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cleveland County
    • Since New Prospect is near Gaston County and also Lincoln County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Gaston County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln 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 Prospect

Communities Also Named New Prospect ...

We found eleven communities that are also named New Prospect.

Within North Carolina, the name New Prospect is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Autauga County
      • This New Prospect is located in Autauga County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Autauga County community of New Prospect.
      • Hale County
      • This New Prospect is located in Hale County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km] to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hale County community of New Prospect.
    • Mississippi
      • Choctaw 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 Mississippi community of New Prospect [Choctaw County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • This New Prospect lies 1,137 miles [1,829.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of New Prospect.
    • South Carolina
      • Spartanburg County
      • This New Prospect is located in Spartanburg County and lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of New Prospect.
    • Tennessee
      • Lawrence County
      • This New Prospect is located in Lawrence County and lies 325 miles [523 km]<1> to the west of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of New Prospect.
      • Union 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 Tennessee community of New Prospect [Union County].
    • Texas
      • Rusk County
      • This New Prospect is located in Rusk County and lies 790 miles [1,271.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rusk County community of New Prospect.
      • Shelby 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 Prospect [Shelby County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Fond du Lac County
      • This New Prospect is located in Fond du Lac County and lies 672 miles [1,081.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the New Prospect that is located in Cleveland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fond du Lac County community of New Prospect.

Curious and Interesting Names Near New Prospect ...

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.

  • Cherryville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Dellview
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Dellview is located in Gaston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellview
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 13 people
  • Double Shoals
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Double Shoals is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Shoals
  • Elizabeth City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Elizabeth City is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth City
  • Fancy ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Fancy is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fancy
  • Landsdown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Landsdown is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landsdown
  • Light Oak
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Light Oak is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Light Oak
  • Marys Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Marys Grove is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marys Grove
  • Rocky Brook
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Rocky Brook is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Brook
  • Rollingwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Rollingwood is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollingwood
  • Stony Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Stony Point is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Point
  • Waco
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Waco is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waco
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 319 people
  • Zion
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Zion is located in Cleveland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion

How Far From New Prospect 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 Prospect to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Shelby, which is the Seat of Cleveland County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 162 miles [260.7 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from New Prospect to Raleigh, with an average speed<5>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 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 346 miles [556.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,242 miles [10,045.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,943 miles [11,173.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,821 miles [7,758.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

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 drawn from Point A (ie- New Prospect) 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 Prospect 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 Prospect, 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 Prospect 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 Prospect. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3496, Longitude: -81.4781       In this case, the coordinates for New Prospect have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.591 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.994 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.718 degrees.