About Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is a cemetery near Spencer, Clay County, Iowa. It lies about 1.2 mi east of Spencer. The grounds sit at about 1,322 feet above sea level. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Babe Towne. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 460666. The nearest other listed cemetery is North Lawn Memorial Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Warner Funeral Homes & Crematory in Spencer, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 23 cemeteries we list in Clay County, and 11 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Spencer. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Riverside Cemetery
Among them: 1 baseball player.
- Babe Towne1880-1938American baseball player
People whose Wikidata entry gives Riverside Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
43.14411, -95.16809
What Riverside 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
- North Lawn Memorial CemeterySpencer, IACemetery1.6 mi
- Evergreen CemeterySpencer, IACemetery4.7 mi
- Prairie Creek CemeterySpencer, IACemetery4.8 mi
- Fairview CemeterySpencer, IACemetery5.3 mi
- Swedish Lutheran CemeterySpencer, IALutheran cemetery6.2 mi
- Dickens CemeterySpencer, IACemetery7.8 mi
- Rosehill CemeterySpencer, IACemetery8.3 mi
- Lone Tree CemeteryHartley, IACemetery8.4 mi
- Little Sioux Lutheran CemeteryMilford, IALutheran cemetery9.0 mi
- First Reformed Church CemeterySpencer, IAChurch cemetery9.0 mi
Funeral homes near Riverside Cemetery
- Warner Funeral Homes & Crematory1.0 miCremation provider · Spencer · (712) 262-3640
- Geelan Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Spencer · (712) 977-4030
- Turner Jenness Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Milford · (712) 338-4661
- Hartley Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Hartley · (712) 928-4238
- Sliefert Funeral Home & Cremation Center18 miFuneral home · Sioux Rapids · (712) 283-2100
- Schuchert Funeral Home19 miFuneral home · Spirit Lake
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