About Shenk Cemetery
Shenk Cemetery is a cemetery near Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 4.4 mi south of Mount Joy. The grounds sit at about 495 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2801822. The nearest other listed cemetery is Keener Cemetery, about 0.6 mi to the west. The nearest funeral home we know of is Buch Funeral Home, Inc. in Mount Joy, about 4.4 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 184 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Lancaster County dates to 1873. 3 of the 608 listings in Lancaster County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Mount Joy. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
40.17390, -76.50208
What Shenk 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
- Keener CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery0.6 mi
- Chiques Church of the Brethren CemeteryMount Joy, PAChurch cemetery0.7 mi
- Givler CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Witmer CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.0 mi
- Pleasant View CemeteryMount Joy, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery1.2 mi
- Henry Eshelman Farm CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.3 mi
- Abraham Gibbel Family CemeteryMount Joy, PAFamily cemetery1.4 mi
- Gibble GraveyardMount Joy, PACemetery1.4 mi
- Hossler CemeteryMount Joy, PACemetery1.6 mi
- Schneider GraveyardElizabethtown, PACemetery1.6 mi
Funeral homes near Shenk Cemetery
- Buch Funeral Home, Inc.4.4 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-4371
- Sheetz Funeral Home, Inc.4.4 miFuneral home · Mount Joy · (717) 653-5441
- William P. Spence Funeral & Cremation Services5.5 miCremation provider · Manheim · (717) 664-2270
- Boyer Funeral Home Ltd5.5 miFuneral home · Elizabethtown · (717) 367-1380
- Simple Funerals Inc5.6 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 664-1500
- Buch Funeral Home Inc5.7 miFuneral home · Manheim · (717) 665-4341
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