About Salem Cemetery
Salem Cemetery is a cemetery near Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. It lies about 3.6 mi northwest of Chariton. The grounds sit at about 1,030 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1970661. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ragtown Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Fielding Funeral Homes in Chariton, about 3.6 mi away. It is one of 44 cemeteries we list in Lucas County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Chariton. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.97543, -93.25941
What Salem 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
- Ragtown CemeteryChariton, IACemetery1.5 mi
- Douglass CemeteryChariton, IACemetery2.6 mi
- Chariton CemeteryChariton, IACemetery3.2 mi
- Calvary CemeteryChariton, IACemetery3.9 mi
- Russell CemeteryChariton, IACemetery3.9 mi
- Waynick CemeteryChariton, IACemetery4.6 mi
- Freedom CemeteryChariton, IACemetery5.4 mi
- Oxford CemeteryChariton, IACemetery5.4 mi
- County Farm CemeteryChariton, IACemetery5.7 mi
- Ryan CemeteryChariton, IACemetery6.3 mi
Funeral homes near Salem Cemetery
- Fielding Funeral Homes3.6 miFuneral home · Chariton · (641) 774-5014
- Pierschbacher Funeral Home3.8 miFuneral home · Chariton · (641) 774-2918
- Thomas-Randolph Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Corydon · (641) 872-1410
- Pierschbacher Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Lacona · (641) 534-9957
- Pierschbacher Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Lacona · (641) 534-9957
- Pierschbacher Funeral Home18 miFuneral home · Melcher-Dallas · (641) 947-3605
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