About Polpis Burying Ground
Polpis Burying Ground is a cemetery near Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It lies about 4.4 mi west of Nantucket. The grounds sit at about 16 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1974777. The nearest other listed cemetery is Quaise Burial Ground, about 1.0 mi to the southwest. It is one of 14 cemeteries we list in Nantucket County, and 13 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Nantucket. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.29654, -70.01577
What Polpis Burying Ground 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
- Quaise Burial GroundNantucket, MACemetery1.0 mi
- New Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery4.5 mi
- African Baptist CemeteryNantucket, MABaptist cemetery4.5 mi
- Colored CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery4.7 mi
- Old Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery4.9 mi
- Old North CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery4.9 mi
- Friends Burial GroundNantucket, MAQuaker cemetery4.9 mi
- Miacomet Indian Burial GroundNantucket, MACemetery5.0 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery5.0 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryNantucket, MAChurch cemetery5.0 mi
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