About Shephard Cemetery
Shephard Cemetery is a cemetery near Big Stone Gap, Scott County, Virginia. It lies about 7.8 mi north of Big Stone Gap. The grounds sit at about 1,719 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1498177. The nearest other listed cemetery is Dillon Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Gilliam Funeral Home & Crematory in Big Stone Gap, about 6.9 mi away. It is one of 429 cemeteries we list in Scott County, and 254 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Big Stone Gap. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.77009, -82.72627
What Shephard 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
- Dillon CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery0.5 mi
- Stone CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery0.6 mi
- Starnes CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery0.7 mi
- Cox Chapel CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VAChurch cemetery0.8 mi
- Durham CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.0 mi
- Stone CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.0 mi
- Hill CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.4 mi
- Cox CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.5 mi
- McNew CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.5 mi
- Hall CemeteryBig Stone Gap, VACemetery1.6 mi
Funeral homes near Shephard Cemetery
- Affordable Monuments6.5 miMonument dealer · Duffield · (276) 940-2306
- Gilliam Funeral Home & Crematory6.9 miCremation provider · Big Stone Gap · (276) 523-7000
- Holding Funeral Home7.2 miFuneral home · Big Stone Gap · (276) 523-1470
- Roy A Green Funeral Home9.8 miFuneral home · Appalachia · (276) 565-1250
- Hagy & Fawbush Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Norton · (276) 679-0192
- Gate City Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Gate City · (276) 386-7033
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