About Parks Cemetery
Parks Cemetery is a cemetery near Gamewell, Burke County, North Carolina. It lies about 8.7 mi east of Gamewell. The grounds sit at about 1,197 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1014231. The nearest other listed cemetery is Houck Cemetery, about 4.6 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Kirksey Funeral Home in Morganton, about 9.0 mi away. It is one of 38 cemeteries we list in Burke County, and 15 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Gamewell. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.88484, -81.75093
What Parks 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
- Houck CemeteryGamewell, NCCemetery4.6 mi
- Estes CemeteryOld Johns River Road, Collettsville, NCCemetery5.5 mi
- Bost CemeteryMorganton, NCCemetery6.2 mi
- Erwin CemeteryMorganton, NCCemetery6.6 mi
- GraveyardGamewell, NCCemetery7.2 mi
- Mortimer CemeteryBlowing Rock, NCCemetery7.4 mi
- Puette CemeteryGamewell, NCCemetery7.4 mi
- Arvil Clark Cemetery5053 Harper Creek Road, Newland, NCCemetery7.6 mi
- Puett CemeteryGamewell, NCCemetery7.6 mi
- Catawba Valley Baptist Church CemeteryMorganton, NCBaptist cemetery7.9 mi
Funeral homes near Parks Cemetery
- Kirksey Funeral Home9.0 miFuneral home · Morganton · (828) 437-2111
- McCain Funeral Home and Cremations9.9 miFuneral home · Morganton · (828) 608-0873
- Sossoman Funeral Home and Crematory Center11 miCremation provider · Morganton · (828) 437-3211
- Ebony Funeral Service12 miFuneral home · Lenoir · (828) 758-1859
- Pendry's Lenoir Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Lenoir · (828) 754-3441
- Carolina Cremation Service13 miCremation provider · Lenoir · (828) 754-3441
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