About Shell Cemetery
Shell Cemetery is a cemetery near Plainview, Knox County, Tennessee. It lies about 5.6 mi northeast of Plainview. The grounds sit at about 1,119 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1269996. The nearest other listed cemetery is Major Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel in Knoxville, about 4.5 mi away. It is one of 214 cemeteries we list in Knox County, and 154 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Knox County dates to 1878. 4 of the 214 listings in Knox County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Plainview. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.11730, -83.86157
What Shell 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
- Major CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery0.9 mi
- Bright CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery1.1 mi
- Tindell CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery1.6 mi
- Bell CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.2 mi
- Meadowlawn CemeteryMascot, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Coupland CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Mountain View CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Old Poor Farm CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.4 mi
- Cline CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.8 mi
- Tindell CemeteryKnoxville, TNCemetery2.9 mi
Funeral homes near Shell Cemetery
- Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel4.5 miFuneral home · Knoxville · (865) 922-9195
- Bridges Funeral Home6.8 miFuneral home · Knoxville · (865) 523-4999
- Gentry Griffey Funeral Chapel & Crematory7.0 miCremation provider · Knoxville · (865) 689-4481
- Mynatt Funeral Home7.0 miFuneral home · Knoxville · (865) 688-2331
- Bridges Funeral Home7.2 miFuneral home · Knoxville · (865) 934-3918
- Knoxville Cremation & Memorial Services, Llc7.3 miCremation provider · Knoxville · (865) 364-8799
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