About Hicks Cemetery
Hicks Cemetery is a cemetery near Lynchburg, Amherst County, Virginia. It lies about 7.1 mi south of Lynchburg. The grounds sit at about 794 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1467993. The nearest other listed cemetery is Campbell Cemetery, about 0.9 mi to the southeast. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory in Madison Heights, about 2.8 mi away. It is one of 45 cemeteries we list in Amherst County, and 37 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Amherst County dates to 1850.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Lynchburg. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
37.51508, -79.12646
What Hicks 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
- Campbell CemeteryMadison Heights, VACemetery0.9 mi
- McIvor CemeteryMadison Heights, VACemetery1.2 mi
- Faulconer CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery1.8 mi
- New Hope CemeteryMadison Heights, VACemetery2.3 mi
- Lone Pine CemeteryMadison Heights, VACemetery2.9 mi
- Williams CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery3.0 mi
- Saint Pauls CemeteryAmherst, VACemetery3.1 mi
- Hudson CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery3.2 mi
- Watts CemeteryLynchburg, VACemetery3.7 mi
- Sweet Briar Plantation Burial GroundAmherst, VACemetery3.9 mi
Funeral homes near Hicks Cemetery
- Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory2.8 miCremation provider · Madison Heights · (434) 929-0055
- Whitten Monelison Chapel3.1 miFuneral home · Madison Heights · (434) 929-5712
- Davis & Turner Funeral Services6.3 miFuneral home · Lynchburg · (434) 846-9011
- Community Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Lynchburg · (434) 847-7775
- Franklin Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Lynchburg · (434) 846-1337
- Carl B. Hutcherson Funeral Home7.1 miFuneral home · Lynchburg
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