About Backbone Cemetery
Backbone Cemetery is a cemetery near Gordo, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It lies about 7.2 mi northwest of Gordo. The grounds sit at about 400 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 147828. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Nebo Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Williams Service Funeral Home in Tuscaloosa, about 12 mi away. It is one of 209 cemeteries we list in Tuscaloosa County, and 54 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Gordo. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.24929, -87.81053
What Backbone Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- Mount Nebo CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery1.6 mi
- Mount Olive CemeteryGordo, ALCemetery2.0 mi
- Corinth CemeteryGordo, ALCemetery2.3 mi
- Flatwood CemeteryGordo, ALCemetery3.2 mi
- Jordan CemeteryGordo, ALCemetery3.4 mi
- Springer CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery3.4 mi
- Wilburn CemeteryGordo, ALCemetery3.6 mi
- New Cornelius Chapel CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALChurch cemetery3.9 mi
- Old Cornelius Chapel CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALChurch cemetery4.2 mi
- Dennis Springer CemeteryTuscaloosa, ALCemetery4.3 mi
Funeral homes near Backbone Cemetery
- Williams Service Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Tuscaloosa · (205) 759-1261
- Rainey Mortuary Service13 miMortuary · Tuscaloosa · (205) 758-1300
- Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Northport · (205) 339-2600
- Rollins' Mortuary14 miMortuary · Tuscaloosa · (205) 759-4202
- Wills Funeral Services14 miFuneral home · Northport · (205) 758-3444
- Vanhoose & Steel Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Tuscaloosa
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