About West Prairie Cemetery
West Prairie Cemetery is a cemetery near Central City, Linn County, Iowa. It lies about 6.1 mi southeast of Central City. The grounds sit at about 978 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2048106. The nearest other listed cemetery is Paris Cemetery, about 2.3 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Central City, about 6.2 mi away. It is one of 90 cemeteries we list in Linn County, and 29 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Central City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.24922, -91.62678
What West Prairie 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
- Paris CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery2.3 mi
- Spring Grove CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery2.4 mi
- Blodgett CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery3.6 mi
- Mills Grove CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery3.7 mi
- Mills CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery3.7 mi
- Troy Mills CemeteryCenter Point, IACemetery4.3 mi
- Upper Spring Grove CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery4.3 mi
- Alice CemeteryCenter Point, IACemetery5.0 mi
- Mount Olivet CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery5.1 mi
- Coggon CemeteryCentral City, IACemetery5.2 mi
Funeral homes near West Prairie Cemetery
- Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Service6.2 miFuneral home · Central City · (319) 438-6113
- Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Service9.0 miFuneral home · Center Point · (319) 849-1567
- Filmers Mortuary Service14 miMortuary · Marion · (319) 784-7100
- Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Services15 miFuneral home · Marion · (319) 377-1553
- Iowa Cremation15 miCremation provider · Cedar Rapids · (319) 378-3361
- Fawcett-Schmitz Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Winthrop · (319) 935-3327
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