About Downing Cemetery
Downing Cemetery is a cemetery near Locust Grove, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It lies about 9.8 mi north of Locust Grove. The grounds sit at about 722 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1092179. The nearest other listed cemetery is Gray Cemetery, about 0.7 mi to the northeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory in Wagoner, about 10 mi away. It is one of 63 cemeteries we list in Cherokee County, and 24 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Locust Grove. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.06166, -95.20233
What Downing 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
- Gray CemeteryLocust Grove, OKCemetery0.7 mi
- Hare CemeteryWagoner, OKCemetery4.5 mi
- Ballou CemeteryLocust Grove, OKCemetery5.1 mi
- New Home CemeteryLocust Grove, OKCemetery5.7 mi
- Keener CemeteryTahlequah, OKCemetery5.7 mi
- Peggs CemeteryLocust Grove, OKCemetery6.0 mi
- Hinson CemeteryWagoner, OKCemetery6.2 mi
- Haner CemeteryLocust Grove, OKCemetery6.3 mi
- Union Mission CemeteryChouteau, OKCemetery6.5 mi
- Lost City CemeteryTahlequah, OKMunicipal cemetery6.5 mi
Funeral homes near Downing Cemetery
- Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory10 miCremation provider · Wagoner · (918) 485-9525
- Locust Grove Funeral Home10 miFuneral home · Locust Grove · (918) 479-8161
- Mallett Funeral Home and Crematory12 miCremation provider · Wagoner · (918) 485-2911
- Hersman-Nichols Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Wagoner · (918) 485-2213
- Shipman Funeral Home & Crematory14 miCremation provider · Wagoner · (918) 485-9525
- Hart Funeral Home16 miFuneral home · Tahlequah · (918) 456-8823
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