About Yellow Hill Cemetery
Yellow Hill Cemetery is a cemetery near Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina. It lies about 0.8 mi south of Cherokee. Wikidata records one notable person buried here: Stan Powell. The nearest other listed cemetery is Lambert Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Long House Funeral Home Inc in Cherokee, about 2.8 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.
Notable people buried at Yellow Hill Cemetery
Among them: 1 football player, 1 World War I veteran.
- Stan Powell1889-1957(1889-1957) American football player
People whose Wikidata entry gives Yellow Hill Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
35.48568, -83.31119
What Yellow Hill 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
- Lambert CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery0.2 mi
- Copper CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery0.5 mi
- Sneed CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.0 mi
- Tolley CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.0 mi
- Bethel CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.7 mi
- Bradley Welch CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery1.7 mi
- Enloe CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.0 mi
- Hughes CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.2 mi
- Nations CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.2 mi
- Olivet CemeteryCherokee, NCCemetery2.2 mi
Funeral homes near Yellow Hill Cemetery
- Long House Funeral Home Inc2.8 miFuneral home · Cherokee · (828) 497-1408
- Bryson City Funeral Home and Memorial Services8.4 miFuneral home · Bryson City
- Moody Funeral Home & Crematorium9.1 miCremation provider · Sylva · (828) 586-4014
- Appalachian Funeral Services9.1 miFuneral home · Sylva · (828) 586-2444
- Crisp Funeral Home9.3 miFuneral home · Bryson City · (828) 488-3222
- Smoky Mountain Cremations and Funeral Service13 miFuneral home · Maggie Valley · (828) 565-3024
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