About Prairie Home Cemetery
Prairie Home Cemetery is a cemetery near Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. The grounds sit at about 902 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 4 notable people buried here, including Solomon Comstock, Litz Rusness and R. M. Probstfield. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 649706. The nearest other listed cemetery is Riverside Cemetery, about 1.6 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Korsmo Funeral Home in Moorhead, about 0.3 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Clay County, and 31 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Moorhead. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Prairie Home Cemetery
Among them: 1 baseball player, 1 US representative.
- Solomon Comstock1842-1933American politician
- Litz Rusness1891-1967American football coach
- R. M. Probstfield1832-1911American politician
- Wallace B. Douglas1852-1930American jurist (1852-1930); Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
People whose Wikidata entry gives Prairie Home Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
46.86560, -96.76705
What Prairie Home 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
- Riverside CemeteryFargo, NDCemetery1.6 mi
- Evergreen CemeteryMoorhead, MNCemetery1.7 mi
- Saint Joseph CemeteryMoorhead, MNCemetery2.8 mi
- Messiah Lutheran Church ColumbariumFargo, NDLutheran cemetery2.8 mi
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Memorial GardenFargo, NDMemorial park2.9 mi
- Riverside CemeteryMoorhead, MNCemetery2.9 mi
- Gethsemane Cathedral ColumbariumFargo, NDCemetery3.7 mi
- Beth El Memorial ParkFargo, NDMemorial park4.0 mi
- Fargo Hebrew Congregation CemeteryFargo, NDJewish cemetery4.0 mi
- Springvale CemeteryFargo, NDCemetery4.1 mi
Funeral homes near Prairie Home Cemetery
- Korsmo Funeral Home0.3 miFuneral home · Moorhead
- Korsmo Funeral and Cremation Service0.3 miCremation provider · Moorhead · (218) 233-1533
- Wright Funeral Home & Cremation Service0.5 miFuneral home · Moorhead · (218) 233-1321
- Hanson-Runsvold Funeral Home1.2 miFuneral home · Fargo · (701) 232-3222
- Boulger Funeral Home1.4 miFuneral home · Fargo · (701) 237-6441
- Valley Mortuary Transportation Services1.6 miMortuary · Moorhead · (218) 280-0331
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