About Sterling Cemetery
Sterling Cemetery is a cemetery near Greenport, Suffolk County, New York. It lies about 0.9 mi south of Greenport. The grounds sit at about 10 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 966457. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Agnes Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 216 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 24 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Suffolk County dates to 1826. 10 of the 216 listings in Suffolk County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Greenport. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
41.11577, -72.35906
What Sterling 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 Agnes CemeteryGreenport, NYChristian cemetery0.3 mi
- Green Hill CemeteryGreenport, NYCemetery0.6 mi
- East Marion CemeteryGreenport, NYCemetery1.4 mi
- Our Lady of the Isle CemeteryShelter Island Heights, NYCemetery2.1 mi
- Hashamomack CemeteryGreenport West, NYCemetery2.7 mi
- Quaker CemeteryShelter Island, NYQuaker cemetery2.8 mi
- Terry Hill CemeteryGreenport, NYCemetery3.3 mi
- Saint Mary's Episcopal CemeteryShelter Island, NYEpiscopal cemetery3.3 mi
- Shelter Island Presbyterian CemeteryShelter Island, NYChristian cemetery3.4 mi
- Orient Congregational CemeteryGreenport, NYCemetery3.6 mi
Funeral homes near Sterling Cemetery
- Horton-Mathie Funeral Home0.5 miFuneral home · Greenport · (631) 477-0054
- Shelter Island Funeral Home2.8 miFuneral home · Shelter Island · (631) 749-2212
- De Friest-Grattan Funeral Home5.5 miFuneral home · Southold · (631) 765-3850
- Yardley and Pino Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Sag Harbor · (631) 725-0251
- Coster-Heppner Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Cutchogue · (631) 734-7720
- Swan Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Old Saybrook · (860) 388-4106
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