About Vela Cemetery
Vela Cemetery is a cemetery near Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas. It lies about 13 mi south of Edinburg. The grounds sit at about 108 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1349219. The nearest other listed cemetery is El Desierto Cemetery, about 1.2 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home in Edinburg, about 13 mi away. It is one of 80 cemeteries we list in Hidalgo County, and 7 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 2 of the 80 listings in Hidalgo County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Edinburg. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
26.49006, -98.19529
What Vela 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
- El Desierto CemeteryEdinburg, TXCemetery1.2 mi
- Nino Jesus de Praga Church CemeteryEdinburg, TXChurch cemetery2.2 mi
- Santa Anita CemeteryEdinburg, TXCemetery6.7 mi
- San Manuel CemeteryEdinburg, TXCemetery6.9 mi
- Cibilo CemeteryDoolittle, TXCemetery7.8 mi
- El Rucio CemeteryEdinburg, TXCemetery8.2 mi
- Cavazos CemeteryDoolittle, TXCemetery9.9 mi
- Rios Family CemeteryDoolittle, TXFamily cemetery11 mi
- Hargill CemeteryMonte Alto, TXCemetery11 mi
- Immaculate Conception CemeteryCitrus City, TXCemetery12 mi
Funeral homes near Vela Cemetery
- Ceballos-Diaz Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Edinburg · (956) 383-4931
- Family Funeral Home13 miFuneral home · Edinburg · (956) 259-0000
- Memorial Funeral Home - Edinburg15 miFuneral home · Edinburg · (956) 380-1416
- Legacy Chapels16 miFuneral home · Edinburg · (956) 618-5900
- La Blanca Kountry Funeral Home17 miFuneral home · Edinburg · (956) 262-3851
- Del angel Funeral18 miFuneral home · Pharr
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