About Rice Cemetery
Rice Cemetery is a cemetery near Mars Hill, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It lies about 5.5 mi northwest of Mars Hill. The nearest other listed cemetery is Big Ivy Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the south. The nearest funeral home we know of is Blue Ridge Funeral Home in Mars Hill, about 6.5 mi away. It is one of 296 cemeteries we list in Buncombe County, and 340 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mars Hill. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.78678, -82.46471
What Rice 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
- Big Ivy CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.2 mi
- Ray CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.4 mi
- Payne Family CemeteryMars Hill, NCFamily cemetery0.5 mi
- Thomas S Dillingham CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.6 mi
- Barnard CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Whitaker CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Maney CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Ballard CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Antioch CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.4 mi
- Antioch Baptist Church Memorial GardensMars Hill, NCMemorial park1.4 mi
Funeral homes near Rice Cemetery
- Blue Ridge Funeral Home6.5 miFuneral home · Mars Hill
- Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service6.5 miCremation provider · Mars Hill · (828) 680-9963
- West Family Funeral Services8.4 miFuneral home · Weaverville · (828) 645-3011
- Madison Funeral Services11 miFuneral home · Marshall · (828) 649-9163
- Yancey Funeral Services12 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 678-9962
- Morris Funeral and Cremation Care13 miCremation provider · Asheville · (828) 252-1821
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