About Quaise Burial Ground
Quaise Burial Ground is a cemetery near Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It lies about 3.5 mi west of Nantucket. The grounds sit at about 33 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2789621. The nearest other listed cemetery is Polpis Burying Ground, about 1.0 mi to the northeast. 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
41.29083, -70.03253
What Quaise Burial 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
- Polpis Burying GroundNantucket, MACemetery1.0 mi
- New Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery3.5 mi
- African Baptist CemeteryNantucket, MABaptist cemetery3.5 mi
- Colored CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery3.8 mi
- Old Town CemeteryNantucket, MAMunicipal cemetery4.0 mi
- Friends Burial GroundNantucket, MAQuaker cemetery4.0 mi
- Old North CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery4.0 mi
- Miacomet Indian Burial GroundNantucket, MACemetery4.0 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryNantucket, MACemetery4.1 mi
- Prospect Hill CemeteryNantucket, MAChurch cemetery4.1 mi
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