This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed)

cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

columbaria A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased. The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "'' colu ...

, and

mausolea A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or Chamber tomb, burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum ...

which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries.

Bourbon County

* Paris Cemetery, Paris; NRHP-listed

Boyd County

* Ashland Cemetery, Ashland *

Bellevue Cemetery Bellevue Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. Established in 1847 and owned by the city of Lawrence, it is the first and principal cemetery of the city and a notable example of a rural cemetery. In conjunctio ...

, Danville * Danville National Cemetery, Danville; NRHP-listed

Campbell County

* Evergreen Cemetery, Southgate * St. Joseph Catholic Church, Camp Springs; NRHP-listed * St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, near Alexandria; NRHP-listed

Daviess County

* Athey's Chapel Cemetery, Rome *

Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery is located in Utica, Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It contains over 100 graves. History The cemetery was properly made in the early 1800s because the earliest known person to be buried there was in 1820. O ...

, Utica *

Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery is located at 1300 Old Hartford Road Owensboro Daviess County Kentucky. There are about 55,000 interments. It is officially recognized as a historical landmark by the state of Kentucky. Notable people buried in the ceme ...

, Owensboro

Edmonson County

Good Spring Baptist Church - Mammoth Cave NP Kentucky

* Good Spring Baptist Church and Cemetery in

Mammoth Cave National Park Mammoth Cave National Park is an American national park in west-central Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper Sout ...

; NRHP-listed * Joppa Baptist Church and Cemetery in

; NRHP-listed *

Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemetery Mammoth Cave Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It was built in 1827 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The church was established in 1827. The current buildin ...

; NRHP-listed

Fayette County

* African Cemetery No. 2, Lexington; NRHP-listed * Episcopal Burying Ground and Chapel, Lexington; NRHP-listed *

Lexington Cemetery Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal ...

, Lexington; NRHP-listed *

Lexington National Cemetery Lexington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Lexington, Kentucky. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses less than 4050 square meters (1 acre), and as of 2014 ...

, Lexington; NRHP-listed

Fleming County

Elizaville Cemetery The Elizaville Cemetery is located in Elizaville, Kentucky. Notable burials * Woodie Fryman (1940–2011), Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher (1966–83) * Franklin Sousley (1925–1945), one of six U.S. Marines The United States ...

, Elizaville

Franklin County

Frankfort Cemetery The Frankfort Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located on East Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone and contains the graves of other famous Americans including seventeen Kentucky governors and a ...

, Frankfort; NRHP-listed

Garrard County

Lancaster Cemetery The Lancaster, Kentucky Cemetery in Lancaster, Kentucky dates from 1861. It is enclosed by Campbell, Crab Orchard, and Richmond Streets in Lancaster. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included two ...

, Lancaster; NRHP-listed

Jefferson County

Cave Hill Cemetery Cave Hill Cemetery is a Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. It is the largest cemetery by area and number of buria ...

, Louisville; NRHP-listed *

Eastern Cemetery Eastern Cemetery is a historic cemetery at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Congress Street in the East Bayside neighborhood of Portland, Maine. Established in 1668, it is the city's oldest historic site, and has more than 4,000 marked ...

, Louisville *

Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery (also known as the Lincoln Cabin Site) is a historic church and cemetery on Long Run Road in Eastwood neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1786 Captain Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Abraham ...

, Louisville; NRHP-listed * St. Louis Cemetery, Louisville *

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road ( US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. It is named for Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, who is buried there with his wife, M ...

, Louisville; NRHP-listed

Jessamine County

Camp Nelson National Cemetery Camp Nelson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky. It was originally a graveyard associated with the U.S. Army's Camp Nelson, which was active during the U.S. Civil War and its a ...

, Nicholasville; NRHP-listed

Kenton County

* Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Erlanger *

Linden Grove Cemetery Linden Grove Cemetery is located along Holman Street, between 13th and 15th streets in Covington, Kentucky, United States. It is the second public cemetery in Covington, the city's first public burial ground being Craig Street Cemetery, which da ...

, Covington; NRHP-listed * Mother of God Cemetery, Covington

Lincoln County

Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site is a park in Junction City, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It marks the estate and burial ground of Kentucky's first governor, Isaac Shelby Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the ...

, Junction City

Logan County

* Red River Presbyterian Meetinghouse Site and Cemetery, Adairville; NRHP-listed

Marion County

Lebanon National Cemetery Lebanon National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just outside the city of Lebanon in Marion County, Kentucky. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses and as of the end of 2005 it had ...

, Lebanon; NRHP-listed

McCracken County

Mount Kenton Cemetery Mount Kenton Cemetery is a small cemetery in the rural city of Paducah, Kentucky in the United States of America. It is located approximately four miles south of Paducah. The area of the cemetery was original deeded by Joseph Kenton to Charles A ...

, Paducah

Monroe County

* Tompkinsville National Cemetery, Tompkinsville

Montgomery County

* Machpelah Cemetery, Mount Sterling; NRHP-listed

Oldham County

Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery is one mile from the old Kentucky Confederate Home site. The National Register of Historic Places lists the cemetery and separately an individual monument within it, the Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley, as ...

, Pewee Valley; NRHP-listed

Pendleton County

* Bethel Cemetery and Church, Falmouth

Pulaski County

Mill Springs National Cemetery Mill Springs National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Nancy, eight miles (13 km) west of the city of Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs ...

, Nancy; NRHP-listed

Scott County

* Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown

Shelby County

* Grove Hill Cemetery Chapel, Shelbyville; NRHP-listed

References

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