About Port Wine Cemetery
Port Wine Cemetery is a cemetery near Downieville, Sierra County, California. It lies about 9.7 mi southeast of Downieville. The grounds sit at about 4,777 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2792079. The nearest other listed cemetery is La Porte Cemetery, about 2.1 mi to the northwest. It is one of 21 cemeteries we list in Sierra County, and 12 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Downieville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.66103, -120.95253
What Port Wine 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
- La Porte CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery2.1 mi
- Morristown CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery2.6 mi
- Saint Louis CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery2.7 mi
- Eureka CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery4.7 mi
- Pine Grove CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery4.8 mi
- Scales CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery5.0 mi
- Howland Flat Catholic CemeteryDownieville, CACatholic cemetery5.3 mi
- Poker Flat CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery6.1 mi
- Gibsonville CemeteryEast Quincy, CACemetery6.2 mi
- Goodyears Bar CemeteryDownieville, CACemetery9.1 mi
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