About Whittington Cemetery
Whittington Cemetery is a cemetery near Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina. It lies about 4.2 mi east of Burnsville. The grounds sit at about 2,598 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1016646. The nearest other listed cemetery is Monroe King Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Yancey Funeral Services in Burnsville, about 2.8 mi away. It is one of 406 cemeteries we list in Yancey County, and 477 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Burnsville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.91705, -82.37679
What Whittington 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
- Monroe King CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.4 mi
- Cane River Church CemeteryBurnsville, NCBaptist cemetery0.4 mi
- Haskett Honeycutt CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.6 mi
- Radford CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.8 mi
- Peterson CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.8 mi
- King Ray CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.8 mi
- Hall McKinney CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery0.9 mi
- Edney CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery1.0 mi
- Ray CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery1.0 mi
- Henry Halle Roland CemeteryBurnsville, NCCemetery1.1 mi
Funeral homes near Whittington Cemetery
- Yancey Funeral Services2.8 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 678-9962
- Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home4.9 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 682-2310
- Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service13 miCremation provider · Mars Hill · (828) 680-9963
- Blue Ridge Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Mars Hill
- Henline-hughes Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Bakersville · (828) 688-4813
- Robert Ledford Funeral Home15 miFuneral home · Erwin · (423) 743-1380
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