About Sams Cemetery
Sams Cemetery is a cemetery near Colfax, Jasper County, Iowa. It lies about 5.6 mi southeast of Colfax. The grounds sit at about 1,017 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 461386. The nearest other listed cemetery is Greencastle Cemetery, about 1.9 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Coburn Funeral Homes in Colfax, about 5.6 mi away. It is one of 77 cemeteries we list in Jasper County, and 30 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Colfax. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.74715, -93.30222
What Sams 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
- Greencastle CemeteryColfax, IACemetery1.9 mi
- Graham CemeteryMitchellville, IACemetery2.7 mi
- Fisher CemeteryColfax, IACemetery2.7 mi
- McKeever CemeteryColfax, IACemetery3.3 mi
- Shipp CemeteryColfax, IACemetery3.9 mi
- Union Chapel CemeteryBaxter, IAChurch cemetery4.5 mi
- Franklin CemeteryMitchellville, IACemetery4.6 mi
- Ashton CemeteryBaxter, IACemetery4.8 mi
- Kintz CemeteryBaxter, IACemetery5.3 mi
- Farrar CemeteryBondurant, IACemetery5.3 mi
Funeral homes near Sams Cemetery
- Coburn Funeral Homes5.6 miFuneral home · Colfax · (515) 674-3155
- DFS Memorials - Des Moines9.5 miMonument dealer · Baxter · (515) 200-2959
- Fredregill Family Funeral Home9.5 miFuneral home · Baxter · (641) 227-2622
- Hamilton's Altoona Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Altoona · (515) 967-4272
- Rasmusson-Ryan Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Maxwell
- Walters-Coburn Funeral Homes11 miFuneral home · Prairie City · (515) 994-2727
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