About Elgin Cemetery
Elgin Cemetery is a cemetery near West Union, Fayette County, Iowa. It lies about 8.5 mi west of West Union. The grounds sit at about 840 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1945205. The nearest other listed cemetery is Gods Acres Cemetery, about 2.4 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Burnham-Wood and S. K. Rogers Funeral Homes in West Union, about 8.3 mi away. It is one of 57 cemeteries we list in Fayette County, and 33 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
42.95865, -91.64028
What Elgin 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
- Gods Acres CemeteryPostville, IACemetery2.4 mi
- Saint Peters CemeteryPostville, IACemetery2.9 mi
- Apostolic CemeteryPostville, IACemetery3.4 mi
- East Clermont Lutheran CemeteryPostville, IALutheran cemetery3.6 mi
- Houg CemeteryPostville, IACemetery3.8 mi
- Brainard CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery4.0 mi
- Illyria CemeteryFayette, IACemetery4.2 mi
- Mork CemeteryElkader, IACemetery4.3 mi
- Cook CemeteryPostville, IACemetery5.0 mi
- Pleasant Grove CemeteryWest Union, IACemetery5.6 mi
Funeral homes near Elgin Cemetery
- Burnham-Wood and S. K. Rogers Funeral Homes8.3 miFuneral home · West Union · (563) 422-3615
- West Union Monument Company8.6 miMonument dealer · West Union · (563) 422-5895
- Schutte-grau Funeral Home9.5 miFuneral home · Postville · (563) 864-7252
- Leonard-Grau Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Monona · (563) 539-2170
- Schmitz Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Ossian · (563) 532-9424
- Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Arlington · (563) 633-2585
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