About Palmer Cemetery
Palmer Cemetery is a cemetery near Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina. It lies about 7.0 mi east of Banner Elk. The grounds sit at about 3,337 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1014193. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hayes Family Cemetery, about 0.3 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Rhododendron Chapel in Roan Mountain, about 3.9 mi away. It is one of 91 cemeteries we list in Avery County, and 169 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Banner Elk. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.17178, -81.99595
What Palmer 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
- Hayes Family CemeteryBanner Elk, NCFamily cemetery0.3 mi
- Hicks Family CemeteryBanner Elk, NCFamily cemetery0.3 mi
- Cardwell CemeteryNewland, NCCemetery0.4 mi
- Oaks CemeteryRoan Mountain, TNCemetery0.7 mi
- Taylor CemeteryBanner Elk, NCCemetery0.8 mi
- Cook CemeteryNewland, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Alvin Hicks CemeteryBanner Elk, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Ellis CemeteryNewland, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Conley Hicks CemeteryBanner Elk, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Clawson Family CemeteryBanner Elk, NCFamily cemetery1.2 mi
Funeral homes near Palmer Cemetery
- Rhododendron Chapel3.9 miFuneral home · Roan Mountain
- Tetrick Funeral Home3.9 miFuneral home · Roan Mountain · (423) 772-3928
- Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home7.3 miFuneral home · Newland · (828) 733-2121
- Henline-hughes Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Bakersville · (828) 688-4813
- Memorial Funeral Chapel17 miFuneral chapel · Elizabethton · (423) 543-3839
- Tetrick Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Elizabethton · (423) 542-2232
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