About Payne Cemetery
Payne Cemetery is a cemetery near Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina. It lies about 5.2 mi east of Murphy. The grounds sit at about 1,591 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1014273. The nearest other listed cemetery is Beech Creek Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ivie Funeral Home in Murphy, about 5.3 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Cherokee County, and 47 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Murphy. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.06619, -84.12352
What Payne 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
- Beech Creek CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery0.7 mi
- Decker CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery1.1 mi
- Kirkland CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery1.3 mi
- James CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery1.7 mi
- Walker Plantation CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery1.8 mi
- Martin CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery2.4 mi
- Hiwassee CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery2.7 mi
- Taylor CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery2.7 mi
- Clonts CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery2.9 mi
- Persimmon Creek CemeteryMurphy, NCCemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Payne Cemetery
- Ivie Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Murphy · (828) 837-2116
- Townson-Rose Funeral Home5.3 miFuneral home · Murphy · (828) 837-2109
- Cochran | McDaniel Funeral Homes & Crematories - Murphy Chapel9.0 miCremation provider · Murphy · (828) 837-9599
- Akins-Cobb Funerals & Cremations15 miFuneral home · Copperhill · (423) 496-5554
- Cochran | McDaniel Funeral Homes & Crematories - McCaysville Chapel16 miCremation provider · McCaysville · (706) 492-3321
- Mountain View Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Blairsville · (706) 745-3456
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