About Harkins Cemetery
Harkins Cemetery is a cemetery near Bent Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It lies about 3.7 mi southeast of Bent Creek. The grounds sit at about 2,152 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 986410. The nearest other listed cemetery is Edgewood Baptist Church Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Wells Funeral Homes in Candler, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 296 cemeteries we list in Buncombe County, and 135 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Bent Creek. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.55082, -82.64833
What Harkins 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
- Edgewood Baptist Church CemeteryBent Creek, NCBaptist cemetery0.2 mi
- Acton United Methodist Church CemeteryBent Creek, NCMethodist cemetery0.5 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial ParkBent Creek, NCMemorial park0.9 mi
- Oak Forest Presbyterian CemeteryBent Creek, NCPresbyterian cemetery1.0 mi
- Penland CemeteryBent Creek, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Oak Hill United Methodist Church CemeteryAsheville, NCMethodist cemetery1.4 mi
- Francis Asbury United Methodist Church CemeteryBent Creek, NCMethodist cemetery1.4 mi
- New Morgan Hill Baptist Church CemeteryBent Creek, NCBaptist cemetery1.5 mi
- Luther CemeteryBent Creek, NCCemetery1.5 mi
- Reeves Chapel Methodist Church CemeteryBent Creek, NCMethodist cemetery1.5 mi
Funeral homes near Harkins Cemetery
- Wells Funeral Homes0.8 miFuneral home · Candler · (828) 667-8717
- A Simple Cremation1.0 miCremation provider · Candler · (828) 418-6486
- Anders-Rice Funeral Home and Cremation Center3.0 miFuneral home · Asheville · (828) 254-3511
- Groce Funeral Home & Cremation Service on Patton Avenue3.1 miFuneral home · Asheville · (828) 252-3535
- Cremation Services-Western Nc4.8 miCremation provider · Canton · (828) 633-6100
- Asheville Area Alternative Funeral And Cremation Services5.6 miCremation provider · Asheville · (828) 258-8274
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