About Porter Cemetery
Porter Cemetery is a cemetery near Sandy Hook, Rowan County, Kentucky. It lies about 8.5 mi southeast of Sandy Hook. The grounds sit at about 1,112 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2079946. The nearest other listed cemetery is J Adkins Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Waddell Whitt Funeral Home in Sandy Hook, about 7.5 mi away. It is one of 282 cemeteries we list in Rowan County, and 237 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
38.17021, -83.24138
What Porter 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
- J Adkins CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.2 mi
- Fraley Cemetery OneSandy Hook, KYCemetery0.3 mi
- Barnett CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.3 mi
- William Conn CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.5 mi
- Brown-Fannin CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.5 mi
- Conn Cemetery TwoSandy Hook, KYCemetery0.5 mi
- Lyon CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.6 mi
- Bryant-Goodman CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.7 mi
- Ison CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.7 mi
- Levi Jones CemeterySandy Hook, KYCemetery0.8 mi
Funeral homes near Porter Cemetery
- Waddell Whitt Funeral Home7.5 miFuneral home · Sandy Hook · (606) 738-9600
- Lewis & Ferguson Funeral Home8.0 miFuneral home · Sandy Hook · (606) 738-5135
- Globe Funeral Chapel8.4 miFuneral chapel · Olive Hill · (606) 286-5306
- Duvall & Moore Funeral Home & Cremation Service9.8 miFuneral home · Olive Hill · (606) 286-4322
- Oney-Henderson Funeral Home9.9 miFuneral home · Olive Hill
- Gray Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Morehead · (606) 784-4134
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