About Mount Olivet Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery near Paxton, Ford County, Illinois. It lies about 6.5 mi northwest of Paxton. The grounds sit at about 771 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1748023. The nearest other listed cemetery is Pleasant Grove Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Baier Family Funeral Services, L.L.C. in Paxton, about 6.4 mi away. It is one of 20 cemeteries we list in Ford County, and 22 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Paxton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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40.41009, -87.98999
What Mount Olivet 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
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery0.4 mi
- Trickle Grove CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery2.2 mi
- Harwood Chapel CemeteryGifford, ILChurch cemetery2.3 mi
- Patton CemeteryGifford, ILCemetery3.4 mi
- Huffman CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery3.4 mi
- Chenoweth CemeteryGifford, ILCemetery4.0 mi
- Tomlinson CemeteryGifford, ILCemetery4.4 mi
- Hall CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery4.6 mi
- Pellville CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery4.9 mi
- Glen CemeteryPaxton, ILCemetery6.0 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Olivet Cemetery
- Baier Family Funeral Services, L.L.C.6.4 miFuneral home · Paxton · (217) 379-3200
- Cox-Knapp Funeral Home6.7 miFuneral home · Paxton · (217) 379-2353
- Lux Memorial Chapel10 miFuneral chapel · Rantoul · (217) 892-9644
- Knapp Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Cissna Park · (815) 457-2424
- Wolfe-Blurton Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Potomac · (217) 987-6425
- Wolfe Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Rossville · (217) 748-6555
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