About Burns Cemetery
Burns Cemetery is a cemetery near Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee. It lies about 5.8 mi west of Athens. The grounds sit at about 971 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1279086. The nearest other listed cemetery is Isbell Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the north. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Companion Funeral and Cremation in Athens, about 5.8 mi away. It is one of 129 cemeteries we list in McMinn County, and 70 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Athens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.47312, -84.49715
What Burns 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
- Isbell CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery0.9 mi
- Mount Harmony Baptist Church CemeteryAthens, TNBaptist cemetery1.4 mi
- Mount Harmony Community CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery1.4 mi
- Netherland-Rice CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery1.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery1.7 mi
- Mount Arnon CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.4 mi
- Saint Marys CemeteryMadisonville, TNCemetery2.5 mi
- Johns CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery2.8 mi
- Slacks CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.0 mi
- Sunrise CemeteryAthens, TNCemetery3.1 mi
Funeral homes near Burns Cemetery
- Companion Funeral and Cremation5.8 miCremation provider · Athens · (423) 453-2302
- Smith Funeral & Cremation Services5.8 miCremation provider · Athens · (423) 745-3013
- Laycock-Hobbs Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-5361
- M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home5.8 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-1473
- Ziegler Funeral Home6.2 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-3123
- Good Samaritan Funeral Home6.8 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 405-5277
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