About Harris Cemetery
Harris Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It lies about 9.7 mi northwest of Athens. The grounds sit at about 646 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 328077. The nearest other listed cemetery is Big Creek Hardshell Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Jones Funeral Chapel in Crawford, about 5.6 mi away. It is one of 286 cemeteries we list in Oglethorpe County, and 229 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Athens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.85114, -83.27160
What Harris 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
- Big Creek Hardshell CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.4 mi
- Corinth CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.7 mi
- Dove CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.8 mi
- Mitchell CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.8 mi
- Trible CemeteryAthens, GACemetery0.8 mi
- Temple Methodist Church CemeteryAthens, GAMethodist cemetery1.0 mi
- Kent-Bradberry CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.0 mi
- W. W. Brooks Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery1.0 mi
- Smith CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.0 mi
- Tuck CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.1 mi
Funeral homes near Harris Cemetery
- Jones Funeral Chapel5.6 miFuneral chapel · Crawford · (706) 743-3618
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes6.2 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes7.4 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-5030
- Barrett Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel7.4 miFuneral home · Crawford · (706) 743-6177
- Mack & Payne Funeral Home Inc8.4 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-8213
- Gardenview Funeral Chapel9.1 miFuneral chapel · Athens · (706) 546-1125
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