About Swenson Cemetery
Swenson Cemetery is a cemetery near Canby, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. It lies about 4.4 mi north of Canby. The grounds sit at about 1,450 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2065675. The nearest other listed cemetery is Trinity Cemetery, about 1.3 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Birk Funeral Home in Canby, about 4.7 mi away. It is one of 34 cemeteries we list in Yellow Medicine County, and 14 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Canby. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
44.64556, -96.29111
What Swenson 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
- Trinity CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery1.3 mi
- Saint Stephens CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery3.7 mi
- Saint Pauls CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery4.0 mi
- Bohemian CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery4.5 mi
- Marble CemeteryIvanhoe, MNCemetery4.6 mi
- Fortier CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery4.9 mi
- Saint Peters CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery5.1 mi
- Porter CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery6.1 mi
- Hansonville CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery6.9 mi
- Wergeland CemeteryCanby, MNCemetery7.2 mi
Funeral homes near Swenson Cemetery
- Birk Funeral Home4.7 miFuneral home · Canby · (507) 223-7262
- Houseman-Birk Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Hendricks
- Houseman Family Funeral Home21 miFuneral home · Clear Lake · (605) 874-2291
- Crawford-Eng Funeral Home21 miFuneral home · Clear Lake · (605) 874-2291
- Hanson & Dahl Funeral Home23 miFuneral home · Dawson · (320) 769-4550
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