Cemetery Locations

Infrared Color Blend, Riverview Cemetery Portland, Oregon

Living in Oregon and preferring to work with what I know, the most detailed cemetery finding information will be in Oregon. The details for other locations will grow as they come in and as I travel more. Here is what I have compiled for Oregon so far: Oregon

Even better yet and just completed is a Google Earth plugin for Oregon, Washington and just the northern sliver of California. This shows every known and cataloged cemetery for all of Oregon and Washington! Best part is it’s entirely free. Google Earth Oregon & Washington Cemetery Plugin

Google Earth Free Cemetery Plugin Screen Shot

If you have a Garmin GPS I have listings of nearly every known cemetery in the United States, available in one big file or broken up by region here:

National GPS P.O.I Cemetery Downloads
(Garmin CSV Format)

Here are some outstanding external links if you’re trying to find a specific (or just new) cemeteries:

http://www.interment.net/
4 Stars. Some areas are incomplete without listings for some counties that are even quite large in population. The listings they do have however, are usually outsanding.

http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/listcem.asp
4 Stars. Great directions and information. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) National Cemetery Administration maintains 128 national cemeteries in 39 states (and Puerto Rico) as well as 33 soldier’s lots and monument sites.

http://www.findagrave.com/tocs/geographic.html
5 Stars! Aside from being a huge resource for geneaologists looking for someone specific, they’re a vast and informative resource for people interested in epitaphs, monuments, and photographs. Most of their cemetery listings include individual listsings with not only their grave marker, but a photograph of the person when alive.

http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/index.html
4 Stars. These guys (and gals) provide quite an accurate database of cemeteries and their address across their country. Searchable by state and name of cemetery, they’re a good resource if you hear a name of a cemetery but can’t seem to find it any other way.

http://www.usgwtombstones.org/registry.html
5 Stars! These folks have compiled a mother load of a database. Again, while not fully complete (what website is?) you can find some treasures listed here. They seem to miss some large cemeteries now and then, but they’re like most, relying on volunteers to provide their content. On the flip side, they also list some cemeteries that other places don’t have at all.
There are more to come! If you know of a website, leave a comment and if it’s as good as you say I’ll add it up here!

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admin | May 5, 2009 11:24 pm

2 Comments

By Kevin, December 14, 2009 @ 3:05 pm

This is a great tool. I have some additional cemeteries for Snohomish County, Washington if you would like them.