List of cemeteries in Kansas

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This is a listing of cemeteries in the U.S. state of Kansas.

U.S. National Cemeteries

Kansas has three United States National Cemeteries which are all administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and overseen from the Leavenworth National Cemetery. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery

|1862

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|Fort Leavenworth

|Leavenworth

| Used as a burial ground as early as 1844, the cemetery has almost 23,000 interments. It is located near the center of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation. The cemetery has two large grave-markers that look like monuments for General Henry Leavenworth and Colonel Edward Hatch.{{cite web|url=http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftleavenworth.asp |title=National Cemetery Administration : Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery |publisher=Cem.va.gov |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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Fort Scott National Cemetery

|1862

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|Fort Scott

|Bourbon

|Originally named Presbyterian Graveyard when the land was purchased and maintained by the Presbyterian Church in 1861, the cemetery is the site of about 6,000 interments. It is located on the eastern outskirts of the city of Fort Scott. A granite monument was erected in 1984 in memory of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftscott.asp |title=Fort Scott National Cemetery - National Cemetery Administration |publisher=Cem.va.gov |date=2013-11-08 |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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Leavenworth National Cemetery

|1973

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|Leavenworth

|Leavenworth

|Located in southeast Leavenworth, the cemetery was designed concurrent to construction of the first buildings of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the first interment occurred in 1886. A limestone obelisk monument, dedicated in 1919, sits atop the crest of a hill in the highest ridge of the cemetery overlooking the Missouri River valley. The cemetery has more than 31,000 interments.{{cite web|url=http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/leavenworth.asp |title=National Cemetery Administration : Leavenworth National Cemetery |publisher=Cem.va.gov |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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Other cemeteries

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Huron Cemetery

|Kansas City

|Wyandotte

|Established around 1843 and now known formally as the Wyandot National Burying Ground.

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Little Walnut Glencoe Township Cemetery

|Between Leon and Beaumont

|Butler

|A small rural cemetery, go east on Highway 400 past Leon and before Beaumont, go north on S.E. Grey Road towards Rosalia

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Oakwood Cemetery

|Parsons

|Labette

|The cemetery contains several Civil War memorials.

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Old Mission Cemetery

|Wichita

|Sedgwick

|The Mausoleum located at the cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places

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Stull Cemetery

|Stull

|Douglas

|A cemetery that has a reputation for being a gateway to Hell and a place that The Devil reportedly haunts.{{cite web|last=Gintowt |first=Richard |url=http://www.lawrence.com/news/2004/oct/26/stull/ |title=Hell hath no fury |publisher=Lawrence.com |date=2004-10-26 |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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America City Cemetery

|Near Havensville

|Nemaha

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Boy's Industrial School Cemetery

|Topeka

|Shawnee

|Originally named the State Reform School and later the State Industrial School for Boys, at Topeka.{{cite web|url=https://kslib.info/DocumentCenter/View/3221 |title=EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 11-40 NAMING THE BENNIE LEE GRAHAM MEMORIAL CEMETERY AT THE KANSAS JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX}} A small cemetery containing the remains of 12 youths.

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Vieux Family Cemetery

|Louisville

|Pottawatomie

|A small family cemetery along the Oregon Trail where Louis Vieux ran a river crossing.{{cite web|url=http://kansasflinthills.travel/sites/louis_vieux_cemetery |title=Flint Hills of Kansas Shopping, Dining, & Accommodations |publisher=Kansasflinthills.travel |date=1998-07-21 |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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Oak Hill Cemetery

|Lawrence

|Douglas

|Quantrill raid victims, Langston Hughes' grandparents, and many war veterans; once called by William Allen White the "Kansas Arlington"{{cite web|url=http://lawrenceks.org/lprd/parks/oakhillcemetery |title=Oak Hill Cemetery · City of Lawrence, Kansas |publisher=Lawrenceks.org |date= |accessdate=2014-03-07}}

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Simerwell Cemetery

|Near Auburn

|Shawnee

|A rural cemetery where the first white female born in Kansas is buried.{{cite web |url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/shawnee/library/vitals/simmerwellcemetery.txt |title=Simerwell Cemetery |publisher=Skyways.lib.ks.us |accessdate=2014-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509113840/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/shawnee/library/vitals/simmerwellcemetery.txt |archive-date=2013-05-09 |url-status=dead }}

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Sunset Cemetery

|Manhattan

|Riley

|Governor Nehemiah Green, Earl Woods, Samuel Wendell Williston, Solon Toothaker Kimball

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See also

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