List of Neighboring Cemeteries ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bannister (within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1>). The cemeteries are listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are located in Kern County.
- Bakersfield National Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Cesar E. Chavez National Monument
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Chinaman Gravesite
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Engle Family Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Fickert Family Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Ft. Tejon Military Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Greenlawn Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenlawn Cemetery
- The Greenlawn Cemetery has also been known as:
- Greenlawn Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8000 <2>
- Greenlawn Southwest Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Hillcrest Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Midway Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Pomfret Memorial Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Shafter Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- South Kern Cemetery District
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Kern Cemetery District
- The South Kern Cemetery District has also been known as:
- Arvin Cemetery
- Arvin Public Cemetery
- Arvin - South Kern Cemetery District
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #656699 <2>
- Tejon Indian Settlement Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Union Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
- The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bakersfield Memorial Cemetery
- Historic Union Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8414 <2>
- Wasco Memorial Park
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wasco Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Wasco Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Wasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1238237 <2>
- West Side District Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
In Closing ...
If you know of any cemeteries that we are missing in the area of Bannister, can you supply us with the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned, etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.
If you don't know the GPS location (ie- the latitude/longitude) of a cemetery, please use our Map Page for Bannister to determine the cemetery's position (the instructions for finding the latitude/longitude can be found below the map).
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bannister.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of an official website for Bannister. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Kern County: www.co.kern.ca.us/
The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/
Working on your genealogy? These are excellent websites to start with when searching in and around the area of Bannister and Kern County:
Links at Cyndi's List:
for State of California
for Kern County
Links at Family Search:
for State of California
for Kern County
Links at Genealogy Trails:
for State of California
for Kern County
We have a longer, more detailed list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bannister.
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bannister) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bannister. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2655, Longitude: -119.1007 In this case, the coordinates for Bannister have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
<2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
<3> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Lebec and Grapevine. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |