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 ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for New Prospect
- 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:
- 36.402024, -83.843249
- 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.
- 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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Union County
- Since New Prospect is near Claiborne County and also Campbell County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Claiborne County
- eBird sighting report for Campbell 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named New Prospect ...
We found eleven communities that share the name New Prospect.
There is one other community in Tennessee which is also named New Prospect.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Lawrence County
- This New Prospect is located in Lawrence County and lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Union County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of New Prospect.
- Lawrence County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Autauga County
- This New Prospect is located in Autauga County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Union 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 330 miles [531.1 km] to the southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Union 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].
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- This New Prospect is located in Cleveland County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the New Prospect that is located in Union County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of New Prospect.
- Nova Scotia
- This New Prospect lies 1,191 miles [1,916.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the New Prospect that is located in Union 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 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the southeast of the New Prospect that is located in Union County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of New Prospect.
- Texas
- Rusk County
- This New Prospect is located in Rusk County and lies 685 miles [1,102.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the New Prospect that is located in Union 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 548 miles [881.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the New Prospect that is located in Union County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fond du Lac County community of New Prospect.
- Alabama
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.
- Flat Hollow
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Hollow
- Flat Hollow is located in Campbell County
- Irwin
(5 miles [8 km] to the south) - Little Barren
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Barren have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Barren
- Little Barren is located in Union County
- Long Hollow ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Hollow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Hollow
- Long Hollow is located in Union County
- Loo ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south) - Lost Creek ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Creek
- Lost Creek is located in Union County
- Mossy Spring
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mossy Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mossy Spring
- Mossy Spring is located in Union County
- Oak Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast) - Pleasant ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Speedwell
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speedwell
- Speedwell is located in Claiborne County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Speedwell <4>
- Union
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
How Far From New Prospect to ...
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 Prospect to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<5> community of New Prospect once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in New Prospect and extending to:
- Maynardville, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from New Prospect to Maynardville, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 164 miles [263.9 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 409 miles [658.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 24 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,293 miles [10,127.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,005 miles [11,273.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,881 miles [7,855.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Union County: www.unioncountytn.org/
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things 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: 36.4020, Longitude: -83.8432 In this case, the coordinates for New Prospect have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <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 312.005 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.767 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.383 degrees. |