About Orphans Home Cemetery
Orphans Home Cemetery is a cemetery near Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas. It lies about 2.2 mi south of Atchison. The grounds sit at about 1,043 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2673198. The nearest other listed cemetery is Taylor Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home in Atchison, about 2.1 mi away. It is one of 40 cemeteries we list in Atchison County, and 31 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Atchison. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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39.59346, -95.11055
What Orphans Home 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
- Taylor CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery0.5 mi
- Abbey CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery1.1 mi
- Mount Calvary CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery1.1 mi
- Saint Benedicts Abbey CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery1.1 mi
- Sunset Memory GardensAtchison, KSCemetery1.4 mi
- Cummings CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery2.1 mi
- Oak Hill CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery2.8 mi
- Mount Saint Scholastica CemeteryAtchison, KSCatholic cemetery3.0 mi
- Myers CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery3.0 mi
- Mount Vernon CemeteryAtchison, KSCemetery4.2 mi
Funeral homes near Orphans Home Cemetery
- Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home2.1 miFuneral home · Atchison · (913) 367-6403
- Becker Dyer Stanton and OTrimble Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Atchison · (913) 367-6543
- Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Atchison
- Harmon-Rode Funeral Homes13 miFuneral home · Troy
- Harman-Rohde Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Wathena · (785) 989-4411
- Vaughn Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Weston · (816) 386-2281
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