About Salem Cemetery
Salem Cemetery is a cemetery near Clayton, New Castle County, Delaware. It lies about 3.3 mi southeast of Clayton. The grounds sit at about 69 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 214597. The nearest other listed cemetery is Foreman - Massey Cemetery, about 2.6 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Smyrna, about 4.2 mi away. It is one of 67 cemeteries we list in New Castle County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in New Castle County dates to 1698. 7 of the 67 listings in New Castle County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Clayton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.31927, -75.68271
What Salem 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
- Foreman - Massey CemeterySmyrna, DECemetery2.6 mi
- St. Peter’s CemeterySmyrna, DEChristian cemetery3.6 mi
- Delaney CemeteryClayton, DECemetery3.7 mi
- Glenwood CemeterySmyrna, DECemetery3.9 mi
- Ebenezer CemeteryTownsend, DECemetery4.1 mi
- IOOF CemeterySmyrna, DECemetery4.9 mi
- Blackiston CemeteryClayton, DECemetery4.9 mi
- Townsend CemeteryTownsend, DECemetery5.0 mi
- Lees Chapel CemeteryChestertown, MDChristian cemetery5.4 mi
- Mount Friendship AME Church CemeteryClayton, DEMethodist cemetery5.6 mi
Funeral homes near Salem Cemetery
- Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home and Cremation Services4.2 miFuneral home · Smyrna · (302) 653-2900
- House of Wright Mortuary4.3 miMortuary · Smyrna · (302) 659-5517
- Faries Funeral Directors Inc4.3 miFuneral home · Smyrna · (302) 653-8816
- Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Homes & Crematory9.2 miCremation provider · Middletown · (302) 378-0300
- Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home9.3 miFuneral home · Middletown · (302) 378-3410
- Fellows Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home9.4 miFuneral home · Millington · (410) 928-5311
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