About Townsend Cemetery
Townsend Cemetery is a cemetery near Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York. It lies about 0.7 mi southeast of Oyster Bay. The grounds sit at about 66 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 947543. The nearest other listed cemetery is Townsend-Wortman Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Oyster Bay Funeral Home in Oyster Bay, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 92 cemeteries we list in Nassau County, and 82 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Nassau County dates to 1658. 7 of the 92 listings in Nassau County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Oyster Bay. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.87333, -73.54217
What Townsend 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
- Townsend-Wortman CemeteryOyster Bay, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Baptist Church CemeteryOyster Bay, NY · est. 1720Christian cemetery0.5 mi
- Silleck CemeteryOyster Bay, NY · est. 1809Cemetery0.5 mi
- Fort Hill CemeteryOyster Bay, NY · est. 1668Cemetery0.6 mi
- Sampson-Adam-Folger CemeteryOyster Bay, NYCemetery0.7 mi
- First Presbyterian Church CemeteryOyster Bay, NYPresbyterian cemetery0.7 mi
- Christ Church CemeteryOyster Bay, NYChurch cemetery0.8 mi
- Zion CemeteryOyster Bay, NYCemetery0.9 mi
- Pine Hollow CemeteryOyster Bay, NY · est. 1884Methodist cemetery1.0 mi
- White-Larrabee CemeteryOyster Bay, NYCemetery1.0 mi
Funeral homes near Townsend Cemetery
- Oyster Bay Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Oyster Bay · (516) 922-7442
- Francis P. DeVine Funeral Home, Inc0.7 miFuneral home · Oyster Bay · (516) 922-6700
- Beney Funeral Home3.7 miFuneral home · Syosset · (516) 921-2888
- Dodge Thomas Funeral Home4.2 miFuneral home · Glen Cove · (516) 676-1180
- Mclaughlin Kramer Megiel Funeral Home4.3 miFuneral home · Glen Cove · (516) 676-8600
- Whitting Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Glen Head · (516) 671-0807
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