About Brainard Cemetery
Brainard Cemetery is a cemetery near West Union, Fayette County, Iowa. It lies about 4.8 mi west of West Union. The grounds sit at about 991 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1945183. The nearest other listed cemetery is Pleasant Grove Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Burnham-Wood and S. K. Rogers Funeral Homes in West Union, about 4.7 mi away. It is one of 57 cemeteries we list in Fayette County, and 32 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, West Union. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.94165, -91.71682
What Brainard 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
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery1.5 mi
- Butler - Barnhouse CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery2.8 mi
- Barnhouse CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery2.9 mi
- Mount Pleasant CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery3.5 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery3.6 mi
- Elgin CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery4.0 mi
- Gods Acres CemeteryPostville, IACemetery4.9 mi
- Illyria CemeteryFayette, IACemetery5.1 mi
- Lima CemeteryFayette, IACemetery5.1 mi
- West Union CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery5.2 mi
Funeral homes near Brainard Cemetery
- Burnham-Wood and S. K. Rogers Funeral Homes4.7 miFuneral home · West Union · (563) 422-3615
- West Union Monument Company4.8 miMonument dealer · West Union · (563) 422-5895
- Schutte-grau Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Postville · (563) 864-7252
- Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Arlington · (563) 633-2585
- Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Maynard · (319) 283-4922
- Schmitz Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Ossian · (563) 532-9424
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
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