Peshtigo Fire Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Marinette County, Wisconsin}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

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| name = Peshtigo Fire Cemetery

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| image = PeshtigoFireCemetery.jpg

| caption = Memorial marker

| location = Peshtigo, Wisconsin

| coordinates = {{coord|45|3|22.87|N|87|45|14.85|W|display=inline,title}}

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| built = 1871

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| added = October 15, 1970

| refnum = 70000037 {{NRISref|2007a}}

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The Peshtigo Fire Cemetery is a cemetery in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. The cemetery is the burial location of the charred remains of victims of the Peshtigo Fire, of October 8, 1871, the deadliest natural fire in the history of the United States.{{Cite web |date=2017-05-02 |title='History of the Peshtigo fire, October 8, 1871' in The Peshtigo Times, 6 October 1921 - (and other public domain newspaper articles or clipping from the Wisconsin Historical Society) |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963788&dsRecordDetails=R:BA13523 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502170825/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963788&dsRecordDetails=R:BA13523 |archive-date=2017-05-02 |access-date=2023-08-18 }} Identified victims were buried in traditional marked graves, and over 300 unidentified victims were buried in a mass grave. The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The memorial at the cemetery was the first official state historical marker authorized by the State Historic Society of Wisconsin.Peshtigo, Wisconsin 2004–05 Directory, published by the Peshtigo Chamber of Commerce, Retrieved August 29, 2007 The cemetery is located adjacent to the Peshtigo Fire Museum, which is a memorial museum for the fire.