About Plainville Cemetery
Plainville Cemetery is a cemetery near Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It lies about 2.0 mi east of Amherst. The grounds sit at about 197 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 601168. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Brigid's Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Douglass Funeral Service in Amherst, about 1.8 mi away. It is one of 89 cemeteries we list in Hampshire County, and 73 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hampshire County dates to 1743.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Amherst. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
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42.37596, -72.55494
What Plainville 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
- Saint Brigid's CemeteryAmherst, MACemetery0.4 mi
- Holy Rosary CemeteryAmherst, MACemetery0.4 mi
- North Hadley CemeteryHatfield, MACemetery1.7 mi
- West CemeteryAmherst Center, MACemetery1.9 mi
- Main Street CemeteryHatfield, MAMunicipal cemetery2.3 mi
- Wildwood CemeteryAmherst Center, MACemetery2.4 mi
- Hill CemeteryHatfield, MACemetery2.7 mi
- Calvary CemetaryHatfield, MACemetery2.9 mi
- North CemeteryNorth Amherst, MACemetery3.1 mi
- Russellville CemeteryNorth Amherst, MACemetery3.2 mi
Funeral homes near Plainville Cemetery
- Douglass Funeral Service1.8 miFuneral home · Amherst · (413) 253-3407
- Drozdal Funeral Home4.7 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-5306
- Czelusniak Funeral Home5.0 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-3585
- Ahearn Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 587-0044
- Pease And Gay Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Northampton · (413) 584-0412
- Wrisley Funeral Home6.8 miFuneral home · South Deerfield · (413) 665-4046
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