Lake View Cemetery in Cayuga Heights, New York

Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery near Cayuga Heights, Tompkins County, New York. The grounds sit at about 495 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 32 notable people buried here, including Carl Sagan, Liberty Hyde Bailey and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 954949. The nearest other listed cemetery is Ithaca City Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs in Ithaca, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 80 cemeteries we list in Tompkins County, and 48 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 1 of the 80 listings in Tompkins County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cayuga Heights. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 9 scientists, 3 writers, 2 inventors and engineers, 1 football player, 1 architect, 1 artist, 1 baseball player, 1 musician.

• Carl Sagan1934-1996
  American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
• Liberty Hyde Bailey1858-1954
  U.S. botanist
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes1874-1927
  United States ornithological artist
• Ethel Zoe Bailey1889-1983
  American botanist and curator
• John Clapp1851-1904
  Baseball player-manager
• Joseph Halpern1953-2026
  Israeli-American computer scientist
• Katherine Van Winkle Palmer1895-1982
  American paleontologist and geologist
• Charles E. Courtney1849-1920
  American rower and rowing coach
• Gil Dobie1879-1948
  American football player and coach, basketball coach
• Hsien Chung Wang1918-1978
  Chinese-American mathematician
• Juanita Breckenridge Bates1860-1946
  American Congregationalist minister
• William Henry Miller1848-1922
  American architect

People whose Wikidata entry gives Lake View 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.

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.

• Ithaca City Cemetery

  Ithaca, NY
  Municipal cemetery

  0.8 mi
• Pleasant Grove Cemetery

  Cayuga Heights, NY
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Mount Olivet Cemetery

  East Ithaca, NY
  Cemetery

  1.6 mi
• East Lawn Cemetery

  East Ithaca, NY
  Cemetery

  1.8 mi
• West Hill Cemetery

  Northwest Ithaca, NY
  Cemetery

  2.7 mi
• Calvary Cemetery

  Ithaca, NY
  Cemetery

  2.8 mi
• Kings Cemetery

  South Hill, NY
  Cemetery

  3.2 mi
• Brown Cemetery

  Lansing, NY
  Cemetery

  3.4 mi
• Inlet Valley Cemetery

  Ithaca, NY
  Cemetery

  4.0 mi
• South Hill Cemetery

  South Hill, NY
  Cemetery

  4.1 mi

• Advanced Funeral Service Education Programs

  Funeral home · Ithaca · (585) 356-4929
  1.2 mi
• Herson-Wagner Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-2300
  1.3 mi
• Bangs Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Ithaca · (607) 272-1922
  1.3 mi
• Lansing Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Lansing · (607) 533-8600
  5.7 mi
• Perkins Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Dryden · (607) 844-8161
  10 mi
• Ness-Sibley Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Trumansburg · (607) 387-8151
  10 mi

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