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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 Holland, we use the following websites to find information relevant to New Holland 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 Holland:
    • 39.554616, -83.259377
    • 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 Holland
  • 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 Pickaway County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pickaway County
    • Since New Holland is near Fayette County and also Ross County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fayette County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ross 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 Holland

Communities Also Named New Holland ...

We found nine communities that are also named New Holland.

There is one other community in Ohio that is also named New Holland.

Beyond Ohio, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Fayette County
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of New Holland.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Hall County
      • This New Holland is located in Hall County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the south of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of New Holland.
    • Illinois
      • Logan County
      • This New Holland is located in Logan County and lies 337 miles [542.3 km]<1> to the west of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of New Holland.
    • Indiana
      • Wabash 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 Indiana community of New Holland [Wabash County].
    • Michigan
      • Ottawa County
      • This New Holland is located in Ottawa County and lies 270 miles [434.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ottawa County community of New Holland.
    • North Carolina
      • Hyde County
      • This New Holland is located in Hyde County and lies 480 miles [772.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hyde County community of New Holland.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lancaster County
      • This New Holland is located in Lancaster County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<1> to the east of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of New Holland.
    • South Carolina
      • Aiken County
      • This New Holland is located in Aiken County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of New Holland.
    • South Dakota
      • Douglas County
      • This New Holland is located in Douglas County and lies 836 miles [1,345.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the New Holland that is located in Pickaway County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of New Holland.

Curious and Interesting Names Near New Holland ...

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.

  • Cook
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Cook is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook
    • Cook has also been known as:
    • Cook Station
  • Five Points
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Five Points is located in Pickaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Good Hope
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Good Hope is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
  • Greenland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Greenland is located in Ross County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland
  • Kinderhook
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Kinderhook is located in Pickaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinderhook
  • Kingfred ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Kingfred is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingfred
  • Kozy Corners
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Kozy Corners is located in Pickaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kozy Corners
  • Rock Mills
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Rock Mills is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Mills
  • Yankeetown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Yankeetown is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankeetown

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

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

  • Circleville, which is the Seat of Pickaway County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from New Holland to Circleville, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 32 miles [51.5 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 335 miles [539.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,124 miles [9,855.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,847 miles [11,019.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,722 miles [7,599.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- New Holland) 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 Holland 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>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 New Holland 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 Holland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5546, Longitude: -83.2594       In this case, the coordinates for New Holland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.642 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.81 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.199 degrees.