About Elephant Butte Cemetery
Elephant Butte Cemetery is a cemetery near Elephant Butte, Sierra County, New Mexico. It lies about 0.7 mi northwest of Elephant Butte. The grounds sit at about 4,688 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 888839. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hot Springs Cemetery, about 4.4 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kirikos Family Funeral Home in Truth or Consequences, about 4.5 mi away. It is one of 21 cemeteries we list in Sierra County, and 5 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Elephant Butte. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
33.14451, -107.17335
What Elephant Butte 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
- Hot Springs Cemetery100 East 8th Avenue, Truth or Consequences, NMCemetery4.4 mi
- Vista Memory GardensTruth or Consequences, NMCemetery5.2 mi
- Graham CemeteryElephant Butte, NMCemetery6.7 mi
- Engle CemeteryElephant Butte, NMCemetery7.5 mi
- Las Palomas Cemetery150 Paloma Blanca Road, Williamsburg, NMCemetery8.6 mi
- Cutter CemeteryElephant Butte, NMCemetery10 mi
- Cuchillo CemeteryYucca Lane, Cuchillo, NMChristian cemetery12 mi
- Las Animas CemeteryKokano Road, Truth or Consequences, NMCemetery16 mi
Funeral homes near Elephant Butte Cemetery
- Kirikos Family Funeral Home4.5 miFuneral home · Truth or Consequences · (575) 894-2574
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