About Carter Cemetery
Carter Cemetery is a cemetery near Dryden, Scott County, Virginia. It lies about 8.4 mi northwest of Dryden. The grounds sit at about 1,348 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1498048. The nearest other listed cemetery is Fraley Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the west. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Gilliam Funeral Home & Crematory in Big Stone Gap, about 11 mi away. It is one of 429 cemeteries we list in Scott County, and 237 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Dryden. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
36.70648, -82.81766
What Carter 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
- Fraley CemeteryDryden, VACemetery0.2 mi
- McKinney CemeteryDryden, VACemetery0.4 mi
- Dulaney CemeteryDryden, VACemetery0.8 mi
- Nickels CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.5 mi
- Dulaney - Tomlinson CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.6 mi
- Kane CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.6 mi
- Clendenen CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.6 mi
- Hood CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.6 mi
- Sproles CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.7 mi
- Burchette CemeteryDryden, VACemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Carter Cemetery
- Affordable Monuments3.9 miMonument dealer · Duffield · (276) 940-2306
- Gilliam Funeral Home & Crematory11 miCremation provider · Big Stone Gap · (276) 523-7000
- Holding Funeral Home11 miFuneral home · Big Stone Gap · (276) 523-1470
- Sturgill/Mullins Funeral Home12 miFuneral home · Pennington Gap · (276) 546-1121
- Carter-Trent Funeral Homes14 miFuneral home · Church Hill · (423) 207-2322
- Roy A Green Funeral Home14 miFuneral home · Appalachia · (276) 565-1250
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