About Townsend Cemetery
Townsend Cemetery is a cemetery near Townsend, New Castle County, Delaware. It lies about 1.0 mi northeast of Townsend. The grounds sit at about 72 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 214757. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ebenezer Cemetery, about 1.9 mi to the southwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Homes & Crematory in Middletown, about 4.3 mi away. It is one of 67 cemeteries we list in New Castle County, and 27 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, Townsend. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.38905, -75.70886
What Townsend 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
- Ebenezer CemeteryTownsend, DECemetery1.9 mi
- Lee's CemeteryTownsend, DECemetery3.0 mi
- Old Saint Anne's Church CemeteryMiddletown, DEChurch cemetery3.2 mi
- Warwick CemeteryElkton, MDChristian cemetery4.2 mi
- Salem CemeteryClayton, DECemetery5.0 mi
- Forest CemeteryMiddletown, DECemetery5.0 mi
- Wesley Chapel of Love Church CemeteryElkton, MDChristian cemetery5.1 mi
- Corbit CemeteryMiddletown, DECemetery5.3 mi
- Lees Chapel CemeteryChestertown, MDChristian cemetery5.6 mi
- Old Drawyers Church CemeteryMiddletown, DEChurch cemetery6.2 mi
Funeral homes near Townsend Cemetery
- Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Homes & Crematory4.3 miCremation provider · Middletown · (302) 378-0300
- Daniels & Hutchison Funeral Home4.3 miFuneral home · Middletown · (302) 378-3410
- House of Wright Mortuary8.2 miMortuary · Smyrna · (302) 659-5517
- Matthews-Bryson Funeral Home and Cremation Services8.2 miFuneral home · Smyrna · (302) 653-2900
- Faries Funeral Directors Inc8.3 miFuneral home · Smyrna · (302) 653-8816
- Galena Funeral Home of Stephen L Schaech9.8 miFuneral home · Galena · (410) 648-5338
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