About Olive Branch Cemetery
Olive Branch Cemetery is a cemetery near Ames, Boone County, Iowa. It lies about 6.3 mi east of Ames. The grounds sit at about 1,076 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 459855. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ontario Cemetery, about 3.3 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Cremation Center of Iowa in Ames, about 1.1 mi away. It is one of 61 cemeteries we list in Boone County, and 36 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 61 listings in Boone County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Ames. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.00823, -93.73727
What Olive Branch 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
- Ontario CemeteryAmes, IACemetery3.3 mi
- Clark CemeteryMadrid, IACemetery3.7 mi
- Iowa State University CemeteryAmes, IACemetery4.6 mi
- College CemeteryAmes, IACemetery4.6 mi
- Garden Prairie CemeteryMadrid, IACemetery5.2 mi
- Oak Grove CemeteryBoone, IACemetery5.6 mi
- Kelley Community CemeteryAmes, IACemetery5.8 mi
- Squire Boone CemeteryBoone, IACemetery6.0 mi
- Bethany CemeteryHuxley, IACemetery6.4 mi
- Story Memorial Gardens CemeteryAmes, IAMemorial park6.5 mi
Funeral homes near Olive Branch Cemetery
- Cremation Center of Iowa1.1 miCremation provider · Ames · (515) 890-1273
- Grandon Funeral & Cremation6.3 miCremation provider · Ames · (515) 292-2273
- Adams Funeral Home6.6 miFuneral home · Ames · (515) 232-5121
- Stevens Memorial Chapel6.7 miFuneral chapel · Ames · (515) 232-5473
- Ames Monument & Cremation Center7.0 miCremation provider · Ames · (515) 233-3449
- Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel and Cremation Services8.1 miCremation provider · Boone · (515) 432-3900
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