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Communities Also Named New Prospect ...

We found twelve communities that share the name New Prospect.

There is one other community in Nova Scotia which is also named New Prospect.

Beyond Nova Scotia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these eleven communities, .

  • Communities Located In Nova Scotia ...
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Autauga County
      • This New Prospect is located in Autauga County and lies 1,475 miles [2,373.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • 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 1,518 miles [2,443 km] to the west southwest.
      • 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].
    • North Carolina
      • Cleveland County
      • This New Prospect is located in Cleveland County and lies 1,137 miles [1,829.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of New Prospect.
    • 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 1,170 miles [1,882.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • 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 1,392 miles [2,240.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • 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 1,859 miles [2,991.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
      • 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 1,179 miles [1,897.4 km]<1> to the west.
      • 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.

How Far From New Prospect to ...

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 Prospect to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

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

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 553 miles [890 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from New Prospect to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 32 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,105 miles [8,215.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 5,814 miles [9,356.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,689 miles [5,936.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>

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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 Prospect) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in New Prospect. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4263, Longitude: -64.2726    
<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 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 . 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>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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.
<7>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.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 299.255 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 294.836 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 295.594 degrees.




 

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