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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 Bethel, we use the following websites to find information relevant to New Bethel 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 Bethel:
    • 36.426215, -82.352918
    • 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 Bethel
  • 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 Sullivan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
    • Since New Bethel is near Washington County and also Carter County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Washington County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Carter 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 Bethel

Communities Also Named New Bethel ...

We found seven communities that are also named New Bethel.

There are two communities within Tennessee that are also named New Bethel.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Tennessee ...
    • Fayette County
      • This New Bethel is located in Fayette County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the west of the New Bethel that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of New Bethel.
    • McMinn County
      • This New Bethel is located in McMinn County and lies 145 miles [233.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Bethel that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McMinn County community of New Bethel.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Colbert County
      • This New Bethel is located in Colbert County and lies 329 miles [529.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Bethel that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colbert County community of New Bethel.
    • Indiana
      • Marion 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 Bethel [Marion County].
    • Mississippi
      • Tishomingo County
      • This New Bethel is located in Tishomingo County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Bethel that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tishomingo County community of New Bethel.
    • North Carolina
      • Orange 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 North Carolina community of New Bethel [Orange County].
    • Texas
      • Jefferson County
      • Although located in Jefferson County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of New Bethel.

Curious and Interesting Names Near New Bethel ...

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.

  • Bluff City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bluff City is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,672 people
    • Former name for Bluff City:
    • Zollicoffer
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bluff City <3>
  • Boring
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Boring is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boring
  • Buffalo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Buffalo is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Crouch Crossroad
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Crouch Crossroad is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch Crossroad
  • Fairlawn
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Fairlawn is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
  • Flourville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Flourville is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flourville
  • Fourville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Fourville is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourville
  • Green Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Green Valley is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Gross Crossroad
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Gross Crossroad is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gross Crossroad
  • Hall Ford
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Hall Ford is located in Sullivan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall Ford
  • Hill-N-Dale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Hill-N-Dale is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill-N-Dale
  • Oak Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Oak Grove is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Pine Ridge
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Pine Ridge is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
    • Piney Flats
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Piney Grove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Piney Grove is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove
    • Rock Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Rock Hill is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Hill
    • Rocky Springs
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Rocky Springs is located in Sullivan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Springs
    • Roundtree
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Roundtree is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roundtree
    • Timberlake
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Timberlake is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberlake

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

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

  • Blountville, which is the Seat of Sullivan County, lies just to the North.
  • Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from New Bethel to Nashville, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 336 miles [540.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,230 miles [10,026.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,938 miles [11,165.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,815 miles [7,749 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 Bethel) 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 Bethel 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 Bethel 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 Bethel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4262, Longitude: -82.3529       In this case, the coordinates for New Bethel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.11 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.746 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.757 degrees.