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A visit to the Memory Garden Memorial Park ...

Introduction ...

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Memory Garden Memorial Park ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Memory Garden Memorial Park:

33.9336, -117.9034

Note: The GPS location that we are using for the Memory Garden Memorial Park can be traced back to the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)<1>

The Memory Garden Memorial Park is located in Orange County<2>.

The county seat for Orange County is located in Santa Ana. Santa Ana lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> to the south of the Memory Garden Memorial Park .

Open a Google Map centered on the Memory Garden Memorial Park.

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 24 that are within 12 miles [19.3 km] of the Memory Garden Memorial Park.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Memory Garden Memorial Park, with the nearest first.

  • Loma Vista Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Queen of Heaven Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Anaheim Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • The Anaheim Cemetery is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anaheim Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Anaheim Cemetery is located in Anaheim.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7838 <5>
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • The Holy Cross Cemetery is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross Cemetery
  • Rose Hills Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • The Rose Hills Memorial Park is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hills Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rose Hills Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Whittier.
    • The Rose Hills Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Whittier Heights Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8308 <5>
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • The Mt. Olive Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Olive Cemetery
  • Olive Grove Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • The Olive Grove Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive Grove Cemetery
  • Yorba Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • The Yorba Cemetery is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorba Cemetery
  • Little Lake Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Melrose Abbey Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • The Melrose Abbey Cemetery is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose Abbey Cemetery
  • Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • The Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills is a very large cemetery that is located in Covina.
    • The Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills has also been known as:
    • Covina Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    • Covina Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park
    • Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    • Forest Lawn Memorial Park
    • Be careful, some people have confused the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina Hills with the Memory Garden Memorial Park - and also the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale (located 23 miles to the west) and the Forest Lawn Park Cemetery (Long Beach) (located 24 miles to the southwest).
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7973 <5>
  • Paradise Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • The Paradise Memorial Park is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Memorial Park
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Spadra Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • The Spadra Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spadra Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Spadra Cemetery is located in Pomona.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1996108 <5>
    • Young Israel Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • The Young Israel Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young Israel Cemetery
    • Artesia Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • The Artesia Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artesia Cemetery
    • Forest Lawn Memorial Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Magnolia Memorial Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • The Magnolia Memorial Park is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Memorial Park
    • Fairhaven Memorial Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • The Fairhaven Memorial Park is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhaven Memorial Park
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairhaven Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Santa Ana.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7965 <5>
    • Santa Ana Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • The Santa Ana Cemetery is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Ana Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Santa Ana Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Santa Ana.
      • The Santa Ana Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8351 <5>
    • St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • The St. John's Lutheran Cemetery is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Santa Ana.
      • The St. John's Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
      • New St. John Lutheran Cemetery
      • New St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
      • St. Johns Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8324 <5>
    • Cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • The Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pomona.
      • The Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Holy Cross Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8036 <5>
    • Holy Cross Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • The Holy Cross Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Holy Cross Cemetery is located in Pomona.
    • Pomona Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • The Pomona Cemetery is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomona Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pomona Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pomona.
      • The Pomona Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Pomona Valley Memorial Park
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8286 <5>

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 27 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Memory Garden Memorial Park.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Memory Garden Memorial Park, with the nearest first:

  • Brea
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Brea is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brea
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 44,484 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brea <6>
  • La Habra
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Rowland Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • La Habra Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • La Habra Heights is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Habra Heights
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,212 people
  • Fullerton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Placentia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • East La Mirada
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • East La Mirada is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East La Mirada
  • South San Jose Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • South San Jose Hills is located in Los Angeles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South San Jose Hills
  • Hacienda Heights
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • La Mirada
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Anaheim
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Atwood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Yorba Linda
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • La Puente
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • City of Industry
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Walnut
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Walnut is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 29,324 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walnut <6>
    • Woodside Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Woodside Village is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside Village
    • Buena Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Olive
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Olive is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive
    • Whittier
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Carmenita
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Carmenita is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmenita
    • Valinda
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Valinda is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valinda
    • Marlboro
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Marlboro is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marlboro
    • West Puente Valley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • West Puente Valley is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Puente Valley
    • Diamond Bar
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Avocado Heights
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Avocado Heights is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avocado Heights
    • South Whittier
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • South Whittier is located in Los Angeles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Whittier

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Memory Garden Memorial Park. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Orange County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Memory Garden Memorial Park.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Memory Garden Memorial Park:

  • Pages specific to California:
  • Pages specific to Orange County:
  • Genealogy information for nearby counties:
  • Cemetery Information and Directories:

    • Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

    Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

    We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Memory Garden Memorial Park:

    • Referenced GNIS Record ...
    • GNIS ID #245766  (Memory Garden Memorial Park)
      • Note: In 2021, GNIS record #245766 was archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website. In the past, the GNIS record contained the following information:
      • BGN Class: cemetery
      • County: Orange
      • Est. Elev: 134 (in feet)
      • Topo Map Name: La Habra
      • Location given for Memory Garden Memorial Park:
      • Lat: 33.9336246     Lon: -117.9033942
      • Open a Google Map centered on the above location.

    Footnotes ...

    <1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
    <2>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Orange, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
    <3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Memory Garden Memorial Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
    <4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add.
    <5>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.
    <6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.