About Mount Zion Cemetery
Mount Zion Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, Madison County, Georgia. It lies about 5.9 mi southwest of Athens. The grounds sit at about 823 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 335526. The nearest other listed cemetery is Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral chapel we know of is Gardenview Funeral Chapel in Athens, about 5.0 mi away. It is one of 172 cemeteries we list in Madison County, and 260 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
34.03844, -83.33543
What Mount Zion 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
- Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery568 Harve Mathis Road, Athens, GABaptist cemetery1.3 mi
- Jones Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery1.6 mi
- Bethaven CemeteryAthens, GACemetery1.9 mi
- Matthews CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.0 mi
- Buena Vista CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.1 mi
- Clarke County Pauper CemeteryAthens, GACemetery2.1 mi
- Yerbey Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery2.2 mi
- Harris Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery2.4 mi
- White Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery2.4 mi
- Tolbert Family CemeteryAthens, GAFamily cemetery2.7 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Zion Cemetery
- Gardenview Funeral Chapel5.0 miFuneral chapel · Athens · (706) 546-1125
- Hurley Funeral Home & Cremation Services5.5 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 548-5671
- Mack & Payne Funeral Home Inc5.7 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-8213
- Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home6.7 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 543-3623
- Winfrey Mutual Funeral Home6.9 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 548-4246
- Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes7.3 miFuneral home · Athens · (706) 546-1587
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