About Portsmouth Cemetery
Portsmouth Cemetery is a cemetery near Swanquarter, Carteret County, North Carolina. It lies about 28 mi northwest of Swanquarter. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2792654. It is one of 18 cemeteries we list in Carteret County, and 11 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Carteret County dates to 1753.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Swanquarter. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.07067, -76.06526
What Portsmouth 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
- Community CemeteryPortsmouth, NC · est. 1900Cemetery0.1 mi
- Grace CemeteryPortsmouth, NC · est. 1912Christian cemetery0.1 mi
- Keeler-Styron CemeterySwanquarter, NCCemetery0.2 mi
- Babb-Dixon CemeteryPortsmouth, NC · est. 1753Christian cemetery0.3 mi
- Wallace CemeterySwanquarter, NCCemetery1.2 mi
- Sam Jones & Inky D (horse)Buxton, NCCemetery4.9 mi
- Scarbarough Family CemeteryBuxton, NCFamily cemetery5.5 mi
- Fletcher & O'NealBuxton, NCCemetery5.7 mi
- British CemeteryBritish Cemetery Road, Ocracoke, NC · est. 1942Christian cemetery5.7 mi
- HMT Bedfordshire GravesitesBritish Cemetery Road, Ocracoke, NCChristian cemetery5.7 mi
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