About Shanks Cemetery
Shanks Cemetery is a cemetery near Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin. It lies about 6.3 mi northeast of Portage. The grounds sit at about 961 feet above sea level. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1573962. The nearest other listed cemetery is McDonald Cemetery, about 0.5 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Home in Portage, about 6.3 mi away. It is one of 72 cemeteries we list in Columbia County, and 38 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Portage. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
43.45875, -89.52330
What Shanks 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
- McDonald CemeteryPortage, WICemetery0.5 mi
- Methodist CemeteryPortage, WIMethodist cemetery1.1 mi
- Rubin - Guenther CemeteryPortage, WICemetery2.0 mi
- Ginter CemeteryPortage, WICemetery2.1 mi
- Dekorra CemeteryPortage, WICemetery3.2 mi
- Saint Paul Evangelical Lutheran CemeteryPortage, WILutheran cemetery3.4 mi
- Welsh Church CemeteryPortage, WIChurch cemetery3.5 mi
- Welsh CemeteryPortage, WICemetery3.5 mi
- Caledonia German Methodist CemeteryPortage, WIMethodist cemetery3.7 mi
- Saint Camillus CemeteryLake Wisconsin, WICemetery3.8 mi
Funeral homes near Shanks Cemetery
- Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Home6.3 miFuneral home · Portage · (608) 742-2126
- Archie Monuments Inc6.6 miMonument dealer · Portage · (608) 742-3818
- Kratz Funeral Home6.6 miFuneral home · Portage · (608) 742-5585
- Pflanz Mendrala Funeral Homes7.9 miFuneral home · Poynette · (608) 635-2763
- Gunderson Funeral Home - Lodi10 miFuneral home · Lodi · (608) 592-3201
- Baldwin Funeral Services11 miFuneral home · Baraboo · (608) 356-4656
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