About Blanco Cemetery
Blanco Cemetery is a cemetery near Fort Sumner, De Baca County, New Mexico. It lies about 19 mi northwest of Fort Sumner. The grounds sit at about 4,403 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 896916. The nearest other listed cemetery is Tolar Cemetery, about 11 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Chavez Funeral Home in Fort Sumner, about 19 mi away. It is one of 13 cemeteries we list in De Baca County, and no other listed cemetery lies within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Fort Sumner. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
34.28221, -104.00088
What Blanco 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.
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Funeral homes near Blanco Cemetery
- Chavez Funeral Home19 miFuneral home · Fort Sumner · (575) 355-2311
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