About Backbone Cemetery
Backbone Cemetery is a cemetery near Sandy Hook, Elliott County, Kentucky. It lies about 10 mi southwest of Sandy Hook. The grounds sit at about 974 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2087672. The nearest other listed cemetery is McDavid Cemetery, about 1.8 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Lewis & Ferguson Funeral Home in Sandy Hook, about 9.4 mi away. It is one of 66 cemeteries we list in Elliott County, and 63 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Sandy Hook. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
38.14695, -82.95382
What Backbone 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
- McDavid CemeteryGrayson, KYCemetery1.8 mi
- Boggs CemeteryMeads, KYCemetery2.5 mi
- Hensley CemeteryMeads, KYCemetery3.6 mi
- Oney CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery3.8 mi
- Gray CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery4.3 mi
- McDavid CemeteryGrayson, KYCemetery4.4 mi
- Rose Cemetery (historical)Sandy Hook, KYCemetery4.6 mi
- Webbville CemeteryMeads, KYCemetery4.7 mi
- Kitchen CemeteryGrayson, KYCemetery5.1 mi
- Jason Boggs CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery5.8 mi
Funeral homes near Backbone Cemetery
- Lewis & Ferguson Funeral Home9.4 miFuneral home · Sandy Hook · (606) 738-5135
- Waddell Whitt Funeral Home9.8 miFuneral home · Sandy Hook · (606) 738-9600
- Grayson Funeral Home and Cremation Services12 miFuneral home · Grayson · (606) 474-5757
- Sparks Funeral Home & Monument Company13 miFuneral home · Grayson · (606) 474-5114
- Malone Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Grayson · (606) 474-5126
- Oney-Henderson Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Olive Hill
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