About Shertz Cemetery
Shertz Cemetery is a cemetery near Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It lies about 2.2 mi north of Paradise. The grounds sit at about 492 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2800817. The nearest other listed cemetery is Carpenters Graveyard, about 1.1 mi to the north. The nearest funeral home we know of is Shivery Funeral Home in Paradise, about 2.0 mi away. It is one of 608 cemeteries we list in Lancaster County, and 170 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, Paradise. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
39.97863, -76.12028
What Shertz 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
- Carpenters Graveyard99 Black Horse Road, Paradise, PACemetery1.1 mi
- Mount Pleasant Mennonite Church CemeteryStrasburg, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.0 mi
- Frantz CemeteryParadise, PACemetery2.1 mi
- Leacock Presbyterian CemeteryParadise, PAPresbyterian cemetery2.1 mi
- Paradise Mennonite CemeteryParadise, PAMennonite and Amish cemetery2.2 mi
- All Saints Episcopal CemeteryParadise, PAEpiscopal cemetery2.2 mi
- Saint John's United Methodist Church CemeteryParadise, PAMethodist cemetery2.6 mi
- Nickel Mines Episcopal CemeteryGap, PAEpiscopal cemetery2.7 mi
- Rockey Family CemeteryGap, PAFamily cemetery2.7 mi
- Saint Michael's Lutheran CemeteryStrasburg, PALutheran cemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Shertz Cemetery
- Shivery Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · Paradise · (717) 687-7768
- Bachman Snyder Funeral Home & Crematory3.1 miCremation provider · Strasburg · (717) 687-7644
- Reynolds and Shivery Funeral Home, Inc5.9 miFuneral home · Quarryville · (717) 786-3272
- Dewald Funeral & Cremation Services, Inc.6.4 miCremation provider · Quarryville · (717) 786-3530
- Shivery Funeral Home6.8 miFuneral home · Christiana · (610) 593-5967
- Furman Home For Funerals8.3 miFuneral home · Leola · (717) 656-6833
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