New Year's Eve Objects Dropped
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| A paper-mache Bermuda onion covered in Christmas lights is dropped. | Food | Atlantic Time Zone | St. George's | Bermuda |
| A star is raised. | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | Prestonsburg | Kentucky |
| A skimboarder is dropped. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Dewey Beach | Delaware |
| A 90 kilograms (200-pound) tangerine was dropped 12 meters (40 feet) during the countdown to midnight until 2009. The tangerine drop was an emblem of the citrus industry that once thrived in Brooksville. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Brooksville | Florida |
| As a symbol of the city's nickname The Venice of America, an anchor is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Fort Lauderdale | Florida |
| The Key West Conch Drop, where a six-foot Queen Conch Shell drops 6 meters (20 feet) to the top of the bar to usher in the New Year, is held annually for the island's official New Year celebrations. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Key West | Florida |
| The 801 Saloon, a local gay bar, drops a ruby slipper with drag queen Gary "Sushi" Marion inside each year. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Key West | Florida |
| Miami is home of "The Big Orange" Drop. (Florida is the orange state) A 10 meters (35-foot) piece of flat neon signage, dubbed “Mr. Neon” and designed in the shape of an orange with sunglasses, rises 120 meters (400 feet) until it reaches the top of the Hotel Intercontinental Miami and is dropped from the top. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Miami | Florida |
| In years when the Miami Heat play a home game on New Year's Eve, American Airlines Arena hosts a New Year's Eve basketball drop for those attending the game. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Miami | Florida |
| The Annual Church Street Entertainment New Year's Eve Street Party includes "a huge video wall, confetti cannons, fireworks, and the tradition of the Orange Drop high above Church Street". | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Orlando | Florida |
| A glowing pineapple is dropped at midnight to ring in the new year in southwest Florida. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Sarasota | Florida |
| A Lego brick is dropped at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Winter Haven | Florida |
| A peach is lowered as part of the annual Peach Drop, which had been held at Underground Atlanta from 1989 to 2017. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Cornelia hosts a "Little Red Apple" Drop and Dance in honor of the region's apple growers. The "Big Red Apple" located at the train depot is not dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Cornelia | Georgia |
| A disco ball called the Soaring Spirit Ball is raised. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Duluth | Georgia |
| The "Chuck the Chicken" Drop started in 2009 to benefit the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Gainesville | Georgia |
| A 6-foot wide lighted ball with metal cherry blossoms and pink lights is dropped in honor of the International Cherry Blossom Festival. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Macon | Georgia |
| In October 2015, the Marietta city council approved a cube designed by students at Kennesaw State University to drop on New Year's Eve for Marietta's first ever New Year's Eve ball drop, but additional details were kept silent. During the countdown, an aerialist from the Proia Dance Project dropped from the cube and performed until a few minutes after midnight. The event confused many people in attendance. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Marietta | Georgia |
| A buzzard is lowered. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Perry | Georgia |
| Since 2014, the Savannah Riverfront has hosted Up the Cup on River Street, featuring the raising of a to-go cup. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Savannah | Georgia |
| A stuffed opossum named Spencer is lowered. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Tallapoosa | Georgia |
| A hog is lowered at midnight. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Unadilla | Georgia |
| A Jug Drop takes place at the Barrow County Museum. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Winder | Georgia |
| A ball is dropped as part of an event entitled The 'Fort Wayne New Year's Eve Ball Drop' which first started in 2016. The original drop was a projection which prompted a group of engineers to volunteer their time in creating an 8 ft. in diameter, low-poly ball covered in translucent acrylic plastic, and lit with over 380,000 lumens of LEDs. As of 2017, the ball is hoisted 80 feet over the corner of Baker and Ewing St., and lowered by crane as the New Year rings in. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Fort Wayne | Indiana |
| An Indy car will be dropped beginning in 2015. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Indianapolis | Indiana |
| An aluminum 70-pound Ball with 34,000 lights is dropped during The Kokomo Downtown Association New Year's Eve Celebration. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Kokomo | Indiana |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Muncie | Indiana |
| The giant 18-foot, 500-pound steel-and-foam Watermelon Ball is raised 100 feet in the air during the 60-second countdown at midnight, then the replica releases 11 real locally-grown watermelons. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Vincennes | Indiana |
| A beach ball covered in Christmas lights has been thrown off the top of a local restaurant since 2005. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Bangor | Maine |
| A sardine is lowered in a nod to the area's history in the herring fishing and canning industry. In honor of the nearby Canadian town of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick (situated across Passamaquoddy Bay), a red maple leaf is also lowered for 11 p.m ET (midnight Atlantic Time). Both objects were created by sculptor Bill Schaefer of East Machias. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Eastport | Maine |
| A wild blueberry ball has dropped from the town's First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street since 2015. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Kennebunk | Maine |
| A giant plastic lobster, holding a shovel and blueberries is lowered. It took place at Pat's Pizza, during 2016. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Machias | Maine |
| A disco ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Baltimore | Maryland |
| Starting in 2017, a ball will be lowered. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Berlin | Maryland |
| A red crab is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Easton | Maryland |
| A giant key is dropped above Carroll Creek. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Frederick | Maryland |
| An eight-foot long, five-foot high wood-and-plastic foam lit duck has been dropped since 2000. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Havre de Grace | Maryland |
| An illuminated beach ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Ocean City | Maryland |
| A stuffed muskrat in a top hat and bow tie named Marshall P. Muskrat is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Princess Anne | Maryland |
| A giant doughnut is dropped in honor of Krumpe's Do-Nuts, a family-owned bakery that has been in business since 1934. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hagerstown | Maryland |
| For 2014, a lit hockey puck was "dropped" in honor of the NHL Winter Classic game occurring on New Year's Day at Michigan Stadium. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Ann Arbor | Michigan |
| A sculpture known as the "D Burst" (which is adorned with a giant letter "D") is lowered at Campus Martius Park. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Detroit | Michigan |
| A six-foot diameter steel ball is dropped for the WZZM Ball Drop in Rosa Parks Circle. The ball was built by GLC Metal Fabricators Inc. in Ludington with help from Harsco, covered in LED lights done by Tye's Signs in Scottville. A crane raises the ball 160 feet into the air before lowering it slowly into its position for the countdown. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Grand Rapids | Michigan |
| A recyclable ball has been dropped since 2009. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Kalamazoo | Michigan |
| A 6’ 5” diameter ball lit up with thousands of lights is lowered on a countdown to midnight. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Ludington | Michigan |
| A lighted ball is dropped from the Savings Bank Building. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Marquette | Michigan |
| A ball is dropped at midnight. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Royal Oak | Michigan |
| A cherry is dropped at midnight; the events are televised on WMNN-LD. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Traverse City | Michigan |
| A 1,000 pound lit steel ball is dropped at both 9 pm and midnight next to The Clock Tower downtown. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Wyandotte | Michigan |
| A blueberry was dropped to commence the year 2018. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hammonton | New Jersey |
| The Millennium Mossbunker, a mossbunker fish, was dropped for the year 2000. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Point Pleasant | New Jersey |
| Snooki from MTV's Seaside Heights-based reality series Jersey Shore was lowered inside a "hamster ball" in 2011 for the network's New Year's Eve special. While the drop was originally to be held inside MTV's studios at Times Square alongside its more famous counterpart, city officials asked MTV not to do so. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Seaside Heights | New Jersey |
| A 6-foot lighted ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Binghamton | New York |
| A 14' diameter ball is dropped from a height of 165' in front of the Saint Stephen's Hotel at the Arches in downtown Brockton. This is reportedly the highest & largest ball drop in the country & the second highest in the world, according to the Dunkirk Observer. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Brocton | New York |
| A lighted ball is dropped, at one time along with a Ford Edge automobile. The Buffalo Ball Drop (formerly the 97 Rock Ball Drop) is the second largest in the country, with 40,000 in attendance during a typical year. The Buffalo Ball Drop is held annually from the Electric Tower in Roosevelt Plaza. It was nearly canceled in 2010 (due mainly to the effects of the late 2000s recession) before a last-minute sponsorship drive brought in the necessary funds to successfully carry out the festivities. The event is broadcast on both 97 Rock (through the radio) and on ABC 7 Buffalo (on television), usually in split screen so that the viewers may see both the Times Square, and Electric Tower ball drops simultaneously. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Buffalo | New York |
| A ball is dropped during the day on New Year's Eve to offer an alternative for families. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Cheektowaga | New York |
| A ball is dropped. The ball drop was discontinued in 2018 because of dangerously cold temperatures. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hamburg | New York |
| In its current iteration since 2008–09, a 11,875 pounds (5,386 kg) ball covered in Waterford Crystal panels has been lowered from the top of One Times Square. The Times Square Ball was originally made of wood and previously metal; during the 1980s, an illuminated apple was used in its place. The ball used to be lit by halogen lamps, but LED has been used since 2008. In 2009, an enlarged version of the new LED-equipped ball became a permanent fixture year-round atop One Times Square. Over a million spectators come to the square each year to see the drop. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | New York City | New York |
| A giant lighted ukulele, dropped by "Sonic Uke" (a local ukulele playing duo), has been dropped each year in a different location since 2004–05. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | New York City | New York |
| A ten-foot Gibson Guitar is dropped from a specially designed 120-foot scaffold at the stroke of midnight at the Hard Rock Cafe. It draws an anticipated crowd of 15,000 to 20,000. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Niagara Falls | New York |
| A ball is dropped as part of New Year's on the Canal. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | North Tonawanda | New York |
| A ball is dropped. The ball drop was discontinued in 2018 because of dangerously cold temperatures. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Orchard Park | New York |
| A tree made out of kegs will be dropped to commence 2020. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Rochester | New York |
| An orange ball was dropped for 2013 and 2014; the event was canceled after that and replaced with a midsummer celebration. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Syracuse | New York |
| A beach ball is dropped at noon New Year's Eve, which kicks off the city's season-long winter celebration, Snowtown USA. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Watertown | New York |
| A ball drops from a crane on the corner of Main Street and Renaissance Square in downtown. The urban festival attracts 25,000 residents of Westchester County, New York. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | White Plains | New York |
| Two balls are dropped, one at 9 p.m. and the other at midnight. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Wilson | New York |
| A pirate is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Beaufort | North Carolina |
| A large red heart drop represents "A Small Town with a Big Heart". | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | Black Creek | North Carolina |
| A plexiglas pyramid containing a living opossum is lowered from the roof of Clay Logan's convenience store for The Possum Drop. The possum is turned loose at the end of the celebration. Despite these measures, the event has been met with criticism from animal rights activists, particularly PETA, who has a history of objections to the event. The event resumed in 2014. After PETA protests, organizers announced in January 2018 they would be stepping down and retiring from organizing the event, saying that "it's a hard job to do" and "it's time to move on." | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Brasstown | North Carolina |
| A blueberry drops in reference to the town's annual blueberry festival. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Burgaw | North Carolina |
| A three-foot tall, thirty-pound wooden flea is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Eastover | North Carolina |
| A lighted crown is raised, representing Charlotte's nickname as "The Queen City". Charlotte Center City Partners produces the festivities. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Charlotte | North Carolina |
| A five-foot tall illuminated gold nugget drops into a large doughnut. The event is hosted by the Marion Rotary Club with support and sponsorship from many local organizations and businesses. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Marion | North Carolina |
| A "kids' crab pot drop" is lowered at 6 | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Morehead City | North Carolina |
| The New Year's Eve Pickle is lowered down the Mt. Olive Pickle Company flagpole at 7 pm EST, midnight Greenwich Mean Time. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Mount Olive | North Carolina |
| A 900-pound copper-and-steel acorn, designed by sculptor David Benson to celebrate the city's 1992 Bicentennial and Raleigh's nickname, “The City of Oaks”, is lowered by a crane. The event has since become one of the busiest New Year's celebrations in the United States with roughly 40,000 attending each year and an attendance record of 80,000 set in 2012. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Raleigh | North Carolina |
| In years when the Carolina Hurricanes play at home on New Year's Eve, PNC Arena holds its own New Year's Eve "puck drop" inside the arena for fans that attend the game. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Raleigh | North Carolina |
| A ball of popcorn is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Chagrin Falls | Ohio |
| A flying pig is "flown", not dropped, confirming there is at least one occasion "when pigs fly". | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Cincinnati | Ohio |
| A sausage is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Elmore | Ohio |
| In the home of the annual Marion Popcorn Festival and the home of the Wyandot Popcorn Company, a giant ball of popcorn is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Marion | Ohio |
| A 7.5-foot, 200-pound aluminum ball is lowered by 90 feet at midnight. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | New Carlisle | Ohio |
| A walleye fish named "Captain Wylie Walleye" is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Port Clinton | Ohio |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Yellow Springs | Ohio |
| The elevator of the Skylon Tower is raised. The event, and an associated concert, was televised by Global through the 2015 celebration, then by the CBC in 2020. The event drew 65,000 spectators for the 2013 celebration, which was headlined by Dragonette, Hedley, and Nelly Furtado. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Niagara Falls | Ontario |
| Allentown's own liberty bell is dropped to commemorate the period when the Liberty Bell was stored in Allentown during the American Revolution. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Allentown | Pennsylvania |
| A purple-and-gold shoe is dropped. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Akron | Pennsylvania |
| A stuffed beaver is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Beavertown | Pennsylvania |
| A 100-pound yellow illuminated Peep made out of fiberglass. (The producer of Peeps, Just Born, is based in Bethlehem) | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania |
| A wooden cow is dropped from a silo. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Blain | Pennsylvania |
| A bear has been dropped since 2010. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Boyertown | Pennsylvania |
| A model gazebo has been dropped since 2019; previous to that, a ball had been dropped on an irregular basis. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Bradford | Pennsylvania |
| Starting in 2018, a replica railroad wheel was dropped honoring Standard Steel LLC, which has operated for over 200 years. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Burnham | Pennsylvania |
| A button is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Carlisle | Pennsylvania |
| A pretzel is raised. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Cleona | Pennsylvania |
| A Cannonball Drop commemorates the historic Cornwall Iron Furnace. The Civil War-era bowling-ball-sized cannonball is courtesy of Sgt. Damian Smith, command historian for the Pennsylvania National Guard. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Cornwall | Pennsylvania |
| Two pickles are dropped; the "Lil' Dill" at 7:00 p.m. ET (midnight in Ireland, in celebration of Dillsburg's Irish founders), and "Mr. Pickle" at midnight. This practice was canceled in 2017-18 due to dangerously cold temperatures, but subsequently brought back for 2018–19. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Dillsburg | Pennsylvania |
| Starting in 2017, a "fire truck" ball will be lowered. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Drexel Hill | Pennsylvania |
| A sled is dropped. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Duncannon | Pennsylvania |
| A large "Haydn's Jug" is dropped. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | East Petersburg | Pennsylvania |
| A ten-foot Crayola crayon is dropped at 8 pm to accommodate children's bedtimes | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Easton | Pennsylvania |
| A giant M&M is dropped at midnight UTC to correspond with midnight in sister city Letterkenny in Ireland. This changed to a Dove chocolate bar in 2012–13; both Dove and M&M's are manufactured in Elizabethtown. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Elizabethtown | Pennsylvania |
| A stuffed goat is dropped. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Falmouth | Pennsylvania |
| A Hemlock tree is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Halifax | Pennsylvania |
| A replica of the Haines Shoe House is dropped. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hallam | Pennsylvania |
| A strawberry is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Harrisburg | Pennsylvania |
| A Three Foot Pac-Man is Dropped at Midnight | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hanover | Pennsylvania |
| A Hershey Kiss replica is raised. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hershey | Pennsylvania |
| Highspire drops candy in commemoration of the Knights Candy Store that operated there during the 1950s to 1970s. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Highspire | Pennsylvania |
| A lollipop is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hummelstown | Pennsylvania |
| A french fry is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Ickesburg | Pennsylvania |
| For 2014, a steel mushroom was dropped. Kennett Square, often called "The Mushroom Capital of the World", is one of the largest growers of mushrooms. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Kennett Square | Pennsylvania |
| A red rose is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Lancaster | Pennsylvania |
| A 100-pound stick of Lebanon Bologna is dropped. The bologna itself is distributed to a local food bank and animal shelter following the drop. For the 2016-2017 this has been modified to ten 20 sticks. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Lebanon | Pennsylvania |
| A bag of Hartley's potato chips is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Lewistown | Pennsylvania |
| A pair of yellow pants or "britches" is dropped in honor of the Yellow Breeches Creek. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Lisburn | Pennsylvania |
| A Moravian star is raised. | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | Lititz | Pennsylvania |
| A canal boat is dropped. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Liverpool | Pennsylvania |
| A replica of the Rockville Bridge that was made by a local Cub Scout Pack is being dropped | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Marysville | Pennsylvania |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Media | Pennsylvania |
| A ball is raised. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Manheim | Pennsylvania |
| A kettle is dropped in honor of McClure Bean Soup Festival. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | McClure | Pennsylvania |
| An ice cream cake is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | McVeytown | Pennsylvania |
| A wrench is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Mechanicsburg | Pennsylvania |
| A metal Rhombicuboctahedron, referred to by the organizers as a "sphoctagon" (portmanteau of sphere and octagon), is dropped. | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | Middletown | Pennsylvania |
| A tablet of Bayer aspirin has been dropped since 2013–14; Bayer operates a manufacturing plant in Myerstown. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Myerstown | Pennsylvania |
| A box huckleberry is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | New Bloomfield | Pennsylvania |
| A big spring is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Newville | Pennsylvania |
| The Giant Shoe is dropped. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Palmyra | Pennsylvania |
| A ball representing the planet earth, made of recycled materials, was raised for 2007. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania |
| A sprint car is dropped. | Transportation | North American Eastern Time Zone | Port Royal | Pennsylvania |
| A bottle of Yuengling beer is raised. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Pottsville | Pennsylvania |
| Wobbly Bob on a beer barrel is dropped. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Reamstown | Pennsylvania |
| A wooden cigar held by a lion is raised. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Red Lion | Pennsylvania |
| A cigar is dropped. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Richland | Pennsylvania |
| A chunk of coal is dropped, turning into a diamond at the bottom; the event has been held since 1987–88. | Rock or mineral | North American Eastern Time Zone | Shamokin | Pennsylvania |
| A giant pierogi with kielbasi is dropped at 7 | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Shenandoah | Pennsylvania |
| An anchor is dropped. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Shippensburg | Pennsylvania |
| Ping pong balls are dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Strasburg | Pennsylvania |
| An incandescent lamp is lit as an homage to the Hotel Edison and its namesake, Thomas Edison. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | Sunbury | Pennsylvania |
| A group of eagles are raised at The ABC Tamaqua Hi-Rise. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Tamaqua | Pennsylvania |
| A chunk of coal is dropped, turning into a diamond at the bottom. The Wilkes-Barre celebration, which began in 1995–96, is an homage to the one in Shamokin. | Rock or mineral | North American Eastern Time Zone | Wilkes-Barre | Pennsylvania |
| A cigar is dropped, an event that began in 2012. | Alcohol or nicotine | North American Eastern Time Zone | Womelsdorf | Pennsylvania |
| A white rose is dropped at midnight after a children's countdown from 6 to 8 pm. | Other | North American Eastern Time Zone | York | Pennsylvania |
| A giant, lighted golf ball is lowered from the Harbour Town Lighthouse, in honor of the Sea Pines Resort's golf courses (which include Harbour Town Golf Links, host of the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage tournament). | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Hilton Head Island | South Carolina |
| A giant pair of flip flops are dropped at the end of Center Street, which pulls in a very large crowd over the past 8 years. It was started in 2010/2011. | Clothing | North American Eastern Time Zone | Folly Beach | South Carolina |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Gatlinburg | Tennessee (Eastern) |
| A ball is dropped on Market Square. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Knoxville | Tennessee (Eastern) |
| A copy of the Times Square Ball is raised rather than dropped, on the Byrd Theater in Carytown. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Richmond | Virginia |
| A 10-foot illuminated star is dropped. | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | Roanoke | Virginia |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | North American Eastern Time Zone | Charlottesville | Virginia |
| An illuminated pear is dropped. | Food | North American Eastern Time Zone | Fredericksburg | Virginia |
| A 6-foot tall illuminated Star is dropped from 80-foot tall flag pole in the center of town at the Farmer's Market Square. | Shape | North American Eastern Time Zone | South Hill | Virginia |
| The Pony Island Horseshoe Drop, on the Downtown Waterfront Park in Chincoteague, Virginia. | Animal | North American Eastern Time Zone | Chincoteague | Virginia |
| A 600-pound, lit Moon Pie is lowered from the RSA Tower in the "MoonPie Over Mobile" festivities sponsored by Chattanooga Bakery. The drop is televised locally by WKRG-TV and syndicated to Alabama television stations owned by Raycom Media (who is headquartered in the tower). Festivities also include a Mardi Gras-styled parade, as moon pies are a traditional "throw" at Mardi Gras events in Mobile. | Food | US Central Time Zone | Mobile | Alabama |
| A ball is dropped. The event was cancelled in 2010, but resumed in time to ring in 2011. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Fairhope | Alabama |
| A meteorite is dropped at the Old Courthouse at 11 pm Central Time in honor of the meteorite that hit the River City. At the stroke of midnight, a big fireworks display takes place over the river. | Rock or mineral | US Central Time Zone | Wetumpka | Alabama |
| Nicknamed "The Peanut Capital of the World", this city has an annual "Peanut Drop". The Peanut Drop consisted of a giant peanut shaped balloon bag (not to be mistaken as a massive phallus) that has also drawn controversial attention to news organizations around the word such as Russia Today | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Dothan | Alabama |
| A hog is dropped. | Animal | US Central Time Zone | Fayetteville | Arkansas |
| KISR sponsors a ball drop. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Fort Smith | Arkansas |
| A ball is pulled over Destin Harbor. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Destin | Florida Panhandle |
| A ball is dropped. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Fort Walton Beach | Florida Panhandle |
| An illuminated, 800-pound beach ball descends from a tower 12 stories high at midnight. At 8:30 pm there is a fireworks celebration and a "family ball drop" with 7,000 beach balls. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Panama City | Florida Panhandle |
| A pelican is dropped. | Animal | US Central Time Zone | Pensacola | Florida Panhandle |
| A star was (formerly) raised. | Shape | US Central Time Zone | Chicago | Illinois |
| A diamond is dropped. | Rock or mineral | US Central Time Zone | Des Plaines | Illinois |
| A ball is lowered towards the Discovery Center building. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Rockford | Illinois |
| A 10-foot Illuminated Pierogi will be lowered 90 feet during a countdown to Midnight. The Pierogi Drop is sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 1696 and has been occurring since 2016. Whiting is known for the annual Pierogi Fest which occurs the last weekend of July. | Food | US Central Time Zone | Hammond / Whiting | Indiana (Northwest & Southwest) |
| An apple with an arrow through it (symbolizing Tell City's namesake, William Tell) is dropped at City Hall Park. | Food | US Central Time Zone | Tell City | Indiana (Northwest & Southwest) |
| A large cedar is lowered by a chain. | Other | US Central Time Zone | Cedar Falls | Iowa |
| The Little Apple, an apple-shaped aluminum ball (a replica of the 1980s era Times Square Ball), is dropped, with the events televised by WIBW-TV in Topeka until 2013–14. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Manhattan | Kansas |
| A fleur-de-lis is lowered at Jackson Square. Until 2008, a gumbo pot was dropped. Since 2017, the television special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has televised the drop and concert acts from the city as part of a Central Time segment of the special. | Other | US Central Time Zone | New Orleans | Louisiana |
| An illuminated 10-foot wide by 10-foot tall lit aluminum ball is hoisted over College Street 100 feet high as part of the "Having a Ball Downtown Block Party". Festivities are broadcast live on WCBI. No longer airs! | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Columbus | Mississippi |
| A replica of the original "Hub-Sign" is lowered in Hattiesburg's historic downtown district. The original 4-story "Hub-Sign" stood atop a downtown building for 35 years (1912- c.1947) and served as a symbol of Hattiesburg's heritage as the hub of the Gulf-South. | Other | US Central Time Zone | Hattiesburg | Mississippi |
| Michael "The Doughboy" Maslak, the longest-tenured improviser at the ComedyCity improv theater, is draped in lights and dropped by members of the troupe. | Other | US Central Time Zone | Kansas City | Missouri |
| An olive is dropped. | Food | US Central Time Zone | Bartlesville | Oklahoma |
| A lighted ball is raised during Opening Night. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma |
| The Tulsa Ball Drop, held annually in Brookside, a district famous for its nightlife, features live music, performances, and a street party. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Tulsa | Oklahoma |
| A mirrored ball is raised; previous to that, guitar is dropped. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Memphis | Tennessee (Central and Western) |
| An 80-foot Guitar Drop took place at Nashville's Hard Rock Cafe during Music City's Bash On Broadway. In 2011 the partnership ended with Hard Rock Cafe and the guitar was exchanged for a 15-foot-tall music note. | Other | US Central Time Zone | Nashville | Tennessee (Central and Western) |
| Families in the Austin Woods neighborhood traditionally celebrate the new year with large illuminated new year's balls hung from trees, which are lowered at varying times during New Year's Eve. Downtown, a Lone Star was dropped until 2006, then replaced with a simple mirrored ball. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Austin | Texas |
| A star representing the Lone Star State was raised at midnight. No celebration was held in 2019. There is also a Noon Ball Drop at the Children's Museum of Houston for families to celebrate New Year's Noon. | Shape | US Central Time Zone | Houston | Texas |
| A giant mirrored ball descends just before midnight. The first orb for 2008 was six feet in diameter, but in 2009 McAllen's big bash was expanded to include a bigger crowd (10,000 attended), a bigger party space and the bigger "Texas-sized" ball used until 2014. This event was last staged in 2014-15 and the event was axed in 2015 due to budgetary problems. An attempt was made to resurrect the event for 2017–18, but failed because of a lack of permit. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | McAllen | Texas |
| The elevator on the Tower of the Americas is raised. | Transportation | US Central Time Zone | San Antonio | Texas |
| Plymouth drops an 80-pound decorated cheese wedge, the newest Wisconsin cheese, from a 100 ft. ladder truck in a tribute to the region's dairy industry and dairy products. The Plymouth Arts Center hosts the annual “Build Your Own New Year’s Party” next to the Creamery Building's parking lot where "The Big Cheese Drop" takes place. | Food | US Central Time Zone | Plymouth | Wisconsin |
| A carp (real but dead) caught by local fishers and weighing between 25 and 30 pounds is lowered. A carp was chosen to represent the area's fishing industry and because the carp is considered one of the luckiest fish in Chinese culture. The carp, nicknamed “Lucky”, is lowered onto a throne. Each “Lucky” has a tree planted where it is buried with a commemorative plaque listing the carp's name and year. | Animal | US Central Time Zone | Prairie du Chien | Wisconsin |
| A cherry-shaped ball is lowered at midnight. | Ball | US Central Time Zone | Sister Bay | Wisconsin |
| A pine cone is dropped from the balcony of Weatherford hotel. | Other | US Mountain Time Zone | Flagstaff | Arizona |
| An illuminated sunburst was dropped while the Fiesta Bowl Block Party and Parade was sponsored by Sunkist, but was replaced by a Giant Tortilla Chip when Tostitos Tortilla Chips took over the sponsorship from Sunkist. The party is 10 blocks long and four blocks wide with two fireworks shows (10 p.m. and midnight). | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Tempe | Arizona |
| A deuce of clubs (2♣) debuted in 2011–12. The card, which is the namesake of the main road through Show Low, is, according to legend the origin of the town's name (the town's founders allegedly derived the name "show low" from a game of poker where the winner showed a 2♣, the lowest card in the deck). | Other | US Mountain Time Zone | Show Low | Arizona |
| Starting in 2014, a large replica Taco was dropped from the roof of the Hotel Congress | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Tucson | Arizona |
| A boot has been dropped since 2010–2011. | Clothing | US Mountain Time Zone | Prescott | Arizona |
| In 2018, the city introduced the "Iceberg Drop", lowering a giant, illuminated lettuce. Two drops are held, with one at 10 | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Yuma | Arizona |
| Since 2014, a giant potato was dropped from the US Bank building in downtown Boise. For 2016, the drop moved to the Idaho State Capitol building, and the organizers successfully crowdfunded a new "Glowtato" with internal lighting. KTVB televises the festivities most years. | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Boise | Idaho |
| Since 2016, a cherry has been raised. | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Emmett | Idaho |
| Since 2002, a metal ball, bought at auction for $14 by Dave Woodhead—owner of the former bar Woody's, has been dropped from a pair of grain elevators. The low-budget event attracted a cult following | Ball | US Mountain Time Zone | Twin Falls | Idaho |
| A 19-foot illuminated chrome chili pepper is dropped. | Food | US Mountain Time Zone | Las Cruces | New Mexico |
| Since 2015, a Zia symbol has been raised 60 feet into the air over Santa Fe Plaza. Sponsored by the City of Santa Fe, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, and other local organizations and businesses, the raising of the Zia is accompanied by live music, food and drinks, fireworks, and bonfires. | Other | US Mountain Time Zone | Santa Fe | New Mexico |
| Drops a ball at Midnight. | Ball | US Mountain Time Zone | Cheyenne | Wyoming |