About Short Creek Cemetery
Short Creek Cemetery is a cemetery near Bowbells, Burke County, North Dakota. It lies about 24 mi southeast of Bowbells. The grounds sit at about 1,919 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2782539. The nearest other listed cemetery is Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery, about 4.5 mi to the southwest. It is one of 41 cemeteries we list in Burke County, and 12 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Bowbells. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
48.95316, -102.73118
What Short Creek 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
- Saint Michaels Catholic CemeteryCrosby, NDCatholic cemetery4.5 mi
- First Trinity Lutheran CemeteryCrosby, NDLutheran cemetery4.5 mi
- Columbus CemeteryCrosby, NDCemetery5.2 mi
- Pleasant Prairie CemeteryCrosby, NDCemetery6.0 mi
- Grand View Lutheran CemeteryBowbells, NDLutheran cemetery6.1 mi
- Saint Johns Lutheran CemeteryCrosby, NDLutheran cemetery6.9 mi
- Saint Olaf CemeteryCrosby, NDCemetery7.2 mi
- Fern CemeteryCrosby, NDCemetery7.5 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryBowbells, NDCemetery8.7 mi
- South CemeteryBowbells, NDCemetery9.1 mi
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