About Elm Creek Cemetery
Elm Creek Cemetery is a cemetery near Fort Thompson, Buffalo County, South Dakota. It lies about 12 mi southwest of Fort Thompson. The grounds sit at about 1,781 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 2773589. The nearest other listed cemetery is Mondamin Cemetery, about 6.2 mi to the northeast. It is one of 13 cemeteries we list in Buffalo County, and 3 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Fort Thompson. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
44.16493, -99.22617
What Elm 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
- Mondamin CemeteryFort Thompson, SDCemetery6.2 mi
- Cedar CemeteryFort Thompson, SDCemetery7.8 mi
- Saint Placidus Catholic CemeteryFort Thompson, SDCatholic cemetery8.5 mi
- Conkicakse Presbyterian CemeteryFort Thompson, SDPresbyterian cemetery12 mi
- Presbyterian CemeteryFort Thompson, SDPresbyterian cemetery12 mi
- Stephan Mission CemeteryFort Thompson, SDCemetery13 mi
- Saint Peter's CemeteryChamberlain, SDEpiscopal cemetery13 mi
- Christ Episcopal CemeteryFort Thompson, SDEpiscopal cemetery13 mi
- Christ Church CemeteryFort Thompson, SDEpiscopal cemetery13 mi
- Saint Johns Episcopal CemeteryFort Thompson, SDEpiscopal cemetery14 mi
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