About Rice Cemetery
Rice Cemetery is a cemetery near Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina. It lies about 4.2 mi southwest of Mars Hill. The nearest other listed cemetery is Smith Rice Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the south. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service in Mars Hill, about 5.2 mi away. It is one of 480 cemeteries we list in Madison County, and 446 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
35.86265, -82.48922
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
- Smith Rice CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.2 mi
- Robinson CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.4 mi
- Briggs CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.6 mi
- Bradford CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Penley CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Dolph Rice CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.9 mi
- John Rice CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery0.9 mi
- Robinson Ray CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Briggs CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Middle Fork CemeteryMars Hill, NCCemetery1.2 mi
Funeral homes near Rice Cemetery
- Blue Ridge Funeral & Cremation Service5.2 miCremation provider · Mars Hill · (828) 680-9963
- Blue Ridge Funeral Home5.2 miFuneral home · Mars Hill
- Yancey Funeral Services9.8 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 678-9962
- Madison Funeral Services10 miFuneral home · Marshall · (828) 649-9163
- Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Burnsville · (828) 682-2310
- West Family Funeral Services12 miFuneral home · Weaverville · (828) 645-3011
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