About Afton Cemetery
Afton Cemetery is a cemetery near Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa. It lies about 5.1 mi southwest of Cherokee. The grounds sit at about 1,388 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 454102. The nearest other listed cemetery is Spring Township Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, about 5.1 mi away. It is one of 25 cemeteries we list in Cherokee County, and 16 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cherokee. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.80624, -95.48665
What Afton 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
- Spring Township CemeteryCherokee, IAMunicipal cemetery1.6 mi
- Spring CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery3.0 mi
- Cedar CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery3.2 mi
- Memory GardensCherokee, IACemetery4.1 mi
- Immanuel Lutheran CemeteryCherokee, IALutheran cemetery5.0 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery5.8 mi
- Beacon Hollow CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery5.9 mi
- Oak Hill CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery6.0 mi
- Saint Johannes CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery7.3 mi
- Pleasant Hill CemeteryCherokee, IACemetery7.5 mi
Funeral homes near Afton Cemetery
- Boothby Funeral Home5.1 miFuneral home · Cherokee · (712) 225-3496
- Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Cherokee · (712) 225-4886
- Redig Funeral Home6.8 miFuneral home · Aurelia · (712) 434-2281
- Warner Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Sutherland · (712) 446-3337
- Greenwood-schubert Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Marcus · (712) 225-4886
- Eldridge Family Funeral Homes/Vander Ploeg Funeral Homes16 miFuneral home · Paullina · (712) 448-3820
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