About Upper Hightower Cemetery
Upper Hightower Cemetery is a cemetery near Hiawassee, Towns County, Georgia. It lies about 6.2 mi west of Hiawassee. The grounds sit at about 2,205 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 351255. The nearest other listed cemetery is Corn Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the west. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Cochran | Mcdaniel Funeral Homes & Crematories - Hiawassee Chapel in Hiawassee, about 6.3 mi away. It is one of 21 cemeteries we list in Towns County, and 22 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Hiawassee. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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34.93259, -83.65072
What Upper Hightower 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
- Corn CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery0.7 mi
- Boyd Chapel CemeteryHiawassee, GAChurch cemetery1.3 mi
- Lower Hightower CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery2.7 mi
- Carter CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery4.3 mi
- Macedonia CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery4.4 mi
- Ivy Mount CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery5.1 mi
- Garrett CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery5.1 mi
- Osborn CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery5.5 mi
- Lower Bell Creek CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery6.0 mi
- Enotah CemeteryHiawassee, GACemetery6.2 mi
Funeral homes near Upper Hightower Cemetery
- Cochran | Mcdaniel Funeral Homes & Crematories - Hiawassee Chapel6.3 miCremation provider · Hiawassee · (706) 896-6000
- Cochran Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Hiawassee
- Banister-Cooper Funeral Home- Available 24/76.4 miFuneral home · Hiawassee · (706) 896-2218
- Banister Funeral Home6.4 miFuneral home · Hiawassee
- Ivie Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Hayesville · (828) 389-8113
- Townson-Rose Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Hayesville · (828) 389-8800
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