Copper Cemetery in Cherokee, North Carolina
Also known as Drama Cemetery, Washington's Creek Cemetery
About Copper Cemetery
Copper Cemetery is a cemetery near Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina. It lies about 0.8 mi south of Cherokee. The grounds sit at about 2,060 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1010478. The nearest other listed cemetery is Yellow Hill Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Long House Funeral Home Inc in Cherokee, about 3.2 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Swain County, and 93 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Cherokee. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.48537, -83.31931
What Copper 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
- Yellow Hill CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery0.5 mi
- Lambert CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery0.6 mi
- Sneed CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Tolley CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.3 mi
- Bradley Welch CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.3 mi
- Bethel CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.4 mi
- Enloe CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.1 mi
- Hughes CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.3 mi
- Nations CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.4 mi
- Olivet CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.4 mi
Funeral homes near Copper Cemetery
- Long House Funeral Home Inc3.2 miFuneral home · Cherokee · (828) 497-1408
- Bryson City Funeral Home and Memorial Services8.0 miFuneral home · Bryson City
- Crisp Funeral Home8.9 miFuneral home · Bryson City · (828) 488-3222
- Moody Funeral Home & Crematorium9.3 miCremation provider · Sylva · (828) 586-4014
- Appalachian Funeral Services9.4 miFuneral home · Sylva · (828) 586-2444
- Smoky Mountain Cremations and Funeral Service13 miFuneral home · Maggie Valley · (828) 565-3024
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