About Mount Ararat Cemetery
Mount Ararat Cemetery is a cemetery near Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. It lies about 5.7 mi northeast of Columbus. The grounds sit at about 213 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 687869. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, about 1.9 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory in Columbus, about 5.8 mi away. It is one of 39 cemeteries we list in Lowndes County, and 26 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Columbus. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.44136, -88.50058
What Mount Ararat 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 Paul Missionary Baptist Church CemeteryColumbus, MSBaptist cemetery1.9 mi
- Memorial Gardens of ColumbusColumbus, MSMemorial park2.7 mi
- Motley CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery3.8 mi
- Saint Matthews CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery4.0 mi
- Friendship CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery4.9 mi
- Wicks Memorial GardensColumbus, MSMemorial park5.1 mi
- Prairie Hill CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery5.3 mi
- Jennings CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery5.3 mi
- Stallion CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery5.6 mi
- Plymouth CemeteryColumbus, MSCemetery5.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Ararat Cemetery
- Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home and Crematory5.8 miCremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-4432
- Century Hairston Funeral Home6.2 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 328-1730
- Lee-Sykes Funeral Home6.2 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 328-4335
- Hairston & Hairston Funeral Homes6.2 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 323-5854
- Carter's Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Columbus · (662) 327-1855
- Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory9.4 miCremation provider · Columbus · (662) 328-1808
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