About Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery near Applewood, Jefferson County, Colorado. It lies about 1.9 mi southwest of Applewood. The grounds sit at about 5,489 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 23 notable people buried here, including Jack Swigert, Horace Tabor and Anne Gorsuch Burford. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 181633. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ralston Cemetery, about 2.0 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Blake Funeral And Cremation Services in Arvada, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 26 cemeteries we list in Jefferson County, and 14 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Applewood. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery
Among them: 2 writers, 1 aviator or astronaut, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 Mexican-American War veteran, 1 US senator.
- Jack Swigert1931-1982NASA Astronaut, Pilot
- Horace Tabor1830-1899American politician
- Anne Gorsuch Burford1942-2004American politician and attorney
- Joseph Projectus Machebeuf1812-1889Catholic bishop
- William Gilpin1813-1894American politician
- William Edmund Barrett1900-1986American writer
- Urban John Vehr1891-1973American archbishop
- Baby Doe Tabor1854-1935American pioneer
- James McParland1844-1919Private detective
- William H. McNichols, Jr.1910-1997Mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1968 to 1983
- Bohdan S. Wynar1926-2013Ukrainian-American librarian, author, and publisher
- Charles S. Falkenberg1956-2001American software engineer, passenger and victim of the American Airlines flight 77 during the September 11 attacks
Show all 23 notable burials
- Dana Falkenberg1998-2001American passenger and victim of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks
- John B. Wright1872-1934American jurist and politician in Arizona Territory
- Justin Carmical1971-2014Internet personality and video game critic
- Leslie A. Whittington1955-2001American professor of economics and public finance (1955-2001), passenger and victim of the American Airlines flight 77 during the September 11 attacks
- Zoe Falkenberg1992-2001American passenger and victim of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks
- Bayard Konvalinka Sweeney1913-2007
- Elaine A. Jahner1942-2003American literary theorist and historian
- John Fairbanks1873-1926
- Julia Armentine Pratte1836-1912
- Margaret McElvaindied 1934(died 1934)
- Wendell Sayers1904-1998American Lawyer
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Olivet Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
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What Mount Olivet 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
- Ralston CemeteryArvada, COCemetery2.0 mi
- Arvada CemeteryArvada, COCemetery2.1 mi
- Golden Hill CemeteryApplewood, COCemetery3.0 mi
- Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary and CemeteryWheat Ridge, COCemetery3.5 mi
- Saint Paul's Episcopal ColumbariumLakewood, COEpiscopal cemetery4.1 mi
- Golden CemeteryWest Pleasant View, COCemetery4.6 mi
- White Ash Mine CemeteryGolden, COCemetery4.8 mi
- William F Cody GraveGolden, COCemetery6.0 mi
- Saint Joseph Episcopal Church ColumbariumLakewood, COEpiscopal cemetery7.1 mi
- Mount Vernon CemeteryWest Pleasant View, COCemetery7.2 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olivet Cemetery
- D. Deorio & Sons Memorials0.4 miMonument dealer · Wheat Ridge · (720) 808-0553
- Blake Funeral And Cremation Services1.1 miCremation provider · Arvada · (303) 424-3092
- Aspen Mortuaries - Arvada2.2 miMortuary · Arvada · (303) 351-2959
- Aspen Mortuaries2.2 miMortuary · Arvada · (303) 351-2990
- Malesich and Shirey Funeral Home2.4 miFuneral home · Arvada · (303) 242-6784
- Blake Funeral And Cremation Services2.9 miCremation provider · Arvada · (303) 424-3092
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