About Burns Cemetery
Burns Cemetery is a cemetery near Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa. It lies about 5.3 mi southeast of Ottumwa. The grounds sit at about 702 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 454997. The nearest other listed cemetery is Harris Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Sinnott Funeral Home, Formerly Robertson Jay Funeral Home in Ottumwa, about 5.2 mi away. It is one of 74 cemeteries we list in Wapello County, and 51 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Ottumwa. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.07067, -92.48672
What Burns 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
- Harris CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery0.5 mi
- Williams CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery2.3 mi
- Myrick CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery2.6 mi
- Comstock CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery2.6 mi
- Chillicothe CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery2.8 mi
- Bowen CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery3.2 mi
- Griffith CemeteryEddyville, IACemetery3.2 mi
- Memorial Lawn CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery4.1 mi
- Thompson GraveEddyville, IACemetery4.7 mi
- Ottumwa CemeteryOttumwa, IACemetery4.9 mi
Funeral homes near Burns Cemetery
- Sinnott Funeral Home, Formerly Robertson Jay Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Ottumwa · (641) 682-8031
- Robertson-Jay Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Ottumwa
- Johnson Funeral Chapel5.5 miFuneral chapel · Ottumwa
- Patterson Monument Co5.5 miMonument dealer · Ottumwa · (641) 682-3176
- Reece Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Ottumwa · (641) 682-4509
- Eddyville Funeral Chapel9.8 miFuneral chapel · Eddyville · (641) 969-4313
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