New Springfield was the town that Lobsang (George Abrahams), Sister Agnes (Agnes Abrahams) and Ben settled in. The town is on Earth West 1,217,756, in a stepwise version of Maine, situated on a low hill.
Most people in the town don't do any farming, as they don't need to, other than potatoes (for stepper boxes) and sheep. They did not have clocks, so they were unable to know exactly what the time was.
The forests around the town were made up of mostly evergreen trees, some of which are varients of those on the Datum Earth, such as Laurel, Walnut, Dogwood and dwarf sequoia. They also had climbers such as honeysuckle, strangler figs and some grape vines. Animals which the locals called Furballs lived in the forests, as well as huge birds.