About Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a cemetery near Colchester, McDonough County, Illinois. It lies about 0.6 mi southeast of Colchester. The grounds sit at about 669 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 413930. The nearest other listed cemetery is Widow Moore Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southwest. The nearest mortuary we know of is Jones Mortuary in Colchester, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 91 cemeteries we list in McDonough County, and 52 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Colchester. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.43466, -90.79837
What Mount Auburn 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
- Widow Moore CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery0.9 mi
- Bean CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery1.3 mi
- Argyle CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.0 mi
- Atkinson CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.4 mi
- Barber CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.5 mi
- Sacred Heart CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.5 mi
- Neece CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.6 mi
- Lower CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery2.7 mi
- Forest Lawn CemeteryMacomb, ILCemetery4.3 mi
- Hutchinson CemeteryColchester, ILCemetery4.4 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Jones Mortuary0.7 miMortuary · Colchester · (309) 776-3122
- Dodsworth-piper-wallen Funeral6.8 miFuneral home · Macomb · (309) 833-4119
- Clugston-Tibbitts Funeral Homes7.0 miFuneral home · Macomb · (309) 833-2188
- Banks & Beals Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · La Harpe · (217) 659-7751
- Martin-hollis Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Bushnell · (309) 772-3116
- Wise Family Funeral Homes22 miFuneral home · Roseville · (309) 426-2211
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