About Morton Cemetery
Morton Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. It lies about 7.0 mi northwest of Athens. The grounds sit at about 705 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 318504. The nearest other listed cemetery is Gilmore Family Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes in Athens, about 3.2 mi away. It is one of 111 cemeteries we list in Clarke County, and 239 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
33.89433, -83.28483
What Morton 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
- Gilmore Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery0.7 mi
- Noell CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.3 mi
- Morton Chapel Baptist Church CemeteryAthens, GABaptist cemetery1.4 mi
- Billups CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.4 mi
- Davis CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.6 mi
- Puryear CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.7 mi
- Old Herring Family GraveyardAthens, GAFamily cemetery1.9 mi
- Billups Grove Baptist Church CemeteryWinterville, GABaptist cemetery1.9 mi
- Smith Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery2.0 mi
- Hanson-Sorrells-Eidson CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.1 mi
Funeral homes near Morton Cemetery
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes3.2 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
- Mack & Payne Funeral Home Inc5.5 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-8213
- Jones Funeral Chapel5.7 miFuneral chapel · Crawford · (706) 743-3618
- Gardenview Funeral Chapel6.1 miFuneral chapel · Athens · (706) 546-1125
- Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home7.4 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-3623
- Winfrey Mutual Funeral Home7.7 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 548-4246
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