About Polk Cemetery
Polk Cemetery is a cemetery near Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi. It lies about 6.7 mi south of Ripley. The grounds sit at about 518 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 704689. The nearest other listed cemetery is Johnson Cemetery, about 1.1 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ripley Funeral Home in Ripley, about 6.0 mi away. It is one of 100 cemeteries we list in Tippah County, and 65 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Ripley. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
34.82092, -88.91256
What Polk 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
- Johnson CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery1.1 mi
- Walnut Creek CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery1.8 mi
- Pine Hill CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery1.8 mi
- Pisgah CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery1.9 mi
- Ruckerville CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery2.1 mi
- Nance CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery2.7 mi
- Old Mount Zion CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery3.0 mi
- Mount Zion CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery3.2 mi
- Pleasant Hill CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery3.2 mi
- Mount Moriah CemeteryRipley, MSCemetery3.7 mi
Funeral homes near Polk Cemetery
- Ripley Funeral Home6.0 miFuneral home · Ripley · (662) 837-3262
- McBride Funeral Home6.5 miFuneral home · Ripley · (662) 837-8101
- Foster & Son Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · Ripley · (662) 837-9334
- Tippah County Monument8.4 miMonument dealer · Ripley · (662) 837-4955
- Adkins Chapel Umc9.8 miFuneral home · Blue Mountain · (662) 837-9282
- Shackelford Funeral Directors17 miFuneral home · Middleton · (731) 658-5277
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