About Mount Zion Cemetery
Mount Zion Cemetery is a cemetery near Simmesport, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. It lies about 6.8 mi southeast of Simmesport. The grounds sit at about 49 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 541927. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mount Calvary Cemetery, about 4.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Escude Funeral Home in Moreauville, about 5.1 mi away. It is one of 37 cemeteries we list in Avoyelles Parish, and 7 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Simmesport. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
31.04518, -91.89039
What Mount Zion 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
- Mount Calvary CemeterySimmesport, LACemetery4.2 mi
- Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church CemeterySimmesport, LABaptist cemetery6.5 mi
- Saint John CemeterySimmesport, LAChristian cemetery7.5 mi
- Plaucheville CemeteryCottonport, LACemetery7.6 mi
- Saint Joseph CemeteryMansura, LACemetery9.4 mi
- Saint Anthony CemeteryCottonport, LACemetery9.5 mi
- True Vine CemeterySimmesport, LACemetery9.6 mi
- New Jerusalem Baptist CemeteryMansura, LABaptist cemetery10 mi
- Saint Pauls CemeterySimmesport, LACemetery10 mi
- Turnbull CemeterySimmesport, LACemetery11 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Zion Cemetery
- Escude Funeral Home5.1 miFuneral home · Moreauville · (318) 985-2866
- Escude Funeral Home5.9 miFuneral home · Simmesport · (318) 941-2727
- Escude Funeral Home9.7 miFuneral home · Mansura · (318) 964-2324
- Escude Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Cottonport · (318) 964-2324
- Kilpatrick's Rose-Neath Funeral Homes12 miFuneral home · Marksville · (318) 240-7188
- Hixson Brothers Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Marksville · (318) 253-5979
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