About Center Cemetery
Center Cemetery is a cemetery near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Illinois. It lies about 9.9 mi northeast of Shelbyville. The grounds sit at about 584 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 405784. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mound Cemetery, about 1.0 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Wallace & Carroll Funeral Home in Herrick, about 7.5 mi away. It is one of 131 cemeteries we list in Shelby County, and 56 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Shelby County dates to 1835.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Shelbyville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.27514, -88.86242
What Center 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
- Mound CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.0 mi
- Askins CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.4 mi
- Neal CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery1.4 mi
- Martin CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.1 mi
- Red Bank CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.3 mi
- Hudson CemeteryPana, ILCemetery2.4 mi
- Moore CemeteryPana, ILCemetery2.6 mi
- Mud Run CemeteryPana, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Hodson CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.8 mi
- Walker CemeteryShelbyville, ILCemetery2.9 mi
Funeral homes near Center Cemetery
- Wallace & Carroll Funeral Home7.5 miFuneral home · Herrick · (618) 428-5717
- Lockart Green Funeral Homes9.7 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-2195
- Howe & Yockey Funeral Home Ltd10 miFuneral home · Shelbyville · (217) 774-3931
- Brummerstedt Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Stewardson · (217) 682-3822
- McCracken-Dean Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Pana · (217) 562-2116
- Kennedy & Sons Funeral Directors PC14 miFuneral home · Pana · (217) 562-3959
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