About Riverhead Cemetery
Riverhead Cemetery is a cemetery near Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. It lies about 0.7 mi southeast of Riverhead. The grounds sit at about 23 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 962566. The nearest other listed cemetery is Swedenborgian Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is McLaughlin Heppner Funeral Home in Riverhead, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 216 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 26 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, Riverhead. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.92537, -72.66954
What Riverhead 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
- Swedenborgian Cemetery612 Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead, NYCemetery0.3 mi
- Saint John the Evangelist CemeteryRiverhead, NYChristian cemetery0.4 mi
- Aquebogue CemeteryAquebogue, NYCemetery2.9 mi
- Sound Avenue CemeteryNorthville, NYCemetery4.1 mi
- Baiting Hollow CemeteryBaiting Hollow, NYCemetery4.3 mi
- Jamesport CemeteryJamesport, NYCemetery4.8 mi
- Wells CemeteryCalverton, NYCemetery5.6 mi
- Laurel CemeteryLaurel, NYCemetery6.4 mi
- Bideawee Pet Memorial ParkRemsenburg-Speonk, NYPet cemetery6.7 mi
- Westhampton CemeteryWesthampton, NYCemetery7.0 mi
Funeral homes near Riverhead Cemetery
- McLaughlin Heppner Funeral Home0.4 miFuneral home · Riverhead · (631) 727-3388
- Tuthill Mangano Funeral Home0.8 miFuneral home · Riverhead · (631) 727-2403
- Werner Rothwell Funeral Home8.0 miFuneral home · Westhampton Beach · (631) 288-1231
- J Ronald Scott Funeral Home Inc8.4 miFuneral home · Hampton Bays · (631) 728-3660
- R J O'Shea Funeral Home Inc8.5 miFuneral home · Hampton Bays · (631) 728-3131
- DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home8.6 miFuneral home · Mattituck · (631) 298-4016
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