About Yorktown Cemetery
Yorktown Cemetery is a cemetery near Prophetstown, Bureau County, Illinois. It lies about 8.2 mi northwest of Prophetstown. The grounds sit at about 640 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1820605. The nearest other listed cemetery is Fairfield Amish Mennonite Cemetery, about 3.4 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Bosma-Gibson Funeral Home in Prophetstown, about 8.1 mi away. It is one of 84 cemeteries we list in Bureau County, and 16 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Prophetstown. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.57253, -89.84983
What Yorktown 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
- Fairfield Amish Mennonite CemeteryWalnut, ILMennonite and Amish cemetery3.4 mi
- Leon Methodist CemeteryProphetstown, ILMethodist cemetery3.7 mi
- Thomas CemeteryWalnut, ILCemetery4.9 mi
- Hooppole CemeteryProphetstown, ILChristian cemetery4.9 mi
- Tampico Memorial CemeteryProphetstown, ILCemetery5.4 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryProphetstown, ILCemetery5.5 mi
- Anderson Family CemeteryWalnut, ILFamily cemetery5.5 mi
- Goble CemeteryGeneseo, ILCemetery5.9 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryProphetstown, ILCemetery5.9 mi
- Fairfield CemeteryWalnut, ILCemetery6.3 mi
Funeral homes near Yorktown Cemetery
- Bosma-Gibson Funeral Home8.1 miFuneral home · Prophetstown · (815) 537-2336
- McDonald Funeral Home8.2 miFuneral home · Prophetstown · (815) 537-5544
- GibsonFuneral Homes LTD13 miFuneral home · Erie · (309) 659-2500
- Vandemore Funeral Homes & Crematory14 miCremation provider · Atkinson
- Van Demore Funeral Homes14 miFuneral home · Atkinson · (309) 936-1100
- Garland Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Walnut · (815) 379-2010
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