About Shenks Community Cemetery
Shenks Community Cemetery is a cemetery near Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 4.6 mi north of Hershey. The grounds sit at about 584 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2801571. The nearest other listed cemetery is Brandt - Grubb Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Hoover Funeral Home & Crematory in Hershey, about 4.6 mi away. It is one of 158 cemeteries we list in Dauphin County, and 150 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Dauphin County dates to 1877. 1 of the 158 listings in Dauphin County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Hershey. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.22274, -76.62107
What Shenks Community 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
- Brandt - Grubb CemeteryElizabethtown, PACemetery0.9 mi
- Brandt Farm CemeteryCampbelltown, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Meckley Farm CemeteryElizabethtown, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Hoffer CemeteryElizabethtown, PACemetery1.7 mi
- Gingrich Family PlotHershey, PAFamily cemetery1.8 mi
- Brandt Gish CemeteryElizabethtown, PACemetery1.8 mi
- Stauffers Mennonite Church CemeteryCampbelltown, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.1 mi
- Moyer CemeteryCampbelltown, PACemetery2.3 mi
- Hershey Reformed Mennonite CemeteryHershey, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.6 mi
- Shearer Farm CemeteryCampbelltown, PACemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Shenks Community Cemetery
- Hoover Funeral Home & Crematory4.6 miCremation provider · Hershey · (717) 533-7700
- Miller-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory4.8 miCremation provider · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1543
- Boyer Funeral Home Ltd5.0 miFuneral home · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1380
- Trefz and Bowser Funeral Home5.6 miFuneral home · Hummelstown · (717) 566-0451
- Matinchek Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Middletown · (717) 944-7015
- Rothermel-Finkenbinder Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc.5.8 miCremation provider · Palmyra · (717) 838-9211
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