About Porter Cemetery
Porter Cemetery is a cemetery near Spring City, Rhea County, Tennessee. It lies about 5.7 mi north of Spring City. The grounds sit at about 827 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1298254. The nearest other listed cemetery is Smith Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Vaughn Funeral Home in Spring City, about 5.7 mi away. It is one of 104 cemeteries we list in Rhea County, and 106 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Spring City. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
35.61068, -84.84344
What Porter 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
- Smith CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery0.4 mi
- Porter - Ward CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery0.8 mi
- Cooke CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery1.9 mi
- Smith - Wilkey CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Wolf Creek CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.1 mi
- Sims CemeteryDecatur, TNCemetery2.2 mi
- Ewing CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Jolley CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Pritchett CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.3 mi
- Godbehere CemeterySpring City, TNCemetery2.6 mi
Funeral homes near Porter Cemetery
- Vaughn Funeral Home5.7 miFuneral home · Spring City · (423) 365-5221
- Decatur Funeral Home & Cremation Services7.0 miFuneral home · Decatur · (423) 334-3661
- Coulter-Garrison Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Dayton · (423) 775-2444
- Vanderwall Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Dayton · (423) 775-2662
- Vaugh Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Dayton
- M D Dotson and Sons Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Athens · (423) 745-1473
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