A visit to the Burr Oak Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Burr Oak Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Burr Oak Cemetery (FG ID #104954)
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 Burr Oak Cemetery ...
The Burr Oak Cemetery is located in Cook County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Bachelor Grove Cemetery
- Beverly Cemetery
- Cedar Park Cemetery
- Chapel Hills Gardens South
- County Cemetery
- The County Cemetery is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for County Cemetery
- Ever Rest Cemetery
- The Ever Rest Cemetery is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ever Rest Cemetery
- Evergreen Cemetery
- Hazel Green Cemetery
- The Hazel Green Cemetery is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel Green Cemetery
- Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery
- Lincoln Cemetery
- Mt. Greenwood Cemetery
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
- Oak Hill Cemetery
- Old German Methodist Cemetery
- Restvale Cemetery
- St. Benedict Catholic Cemetery
- St. Casimir Catholic Cemetery
- St. Gabriel Catholic Cemetery
- St. Mary Catholic Cemetery
- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 32 communities are within Less than 2 miles<3> of the Burr Oak Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Alsip
- Blue Island
- Bridgeview
- Burbank
- Calumet Park
- Chicago Ridge
- Country Club Hills
- Crestwood
- Dixmoor
- Evergreen Park
- Gano
- Harvey
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Hazel Crest
- Hickory Hills
- Hometown
- Markham
- Merrionette Park
- Midlothian
- Oak Forest
- Oak Lawn
- Orland Park
- Palos Heights
- Palos Hills
- Palos Park
- Phoenix
- Phoenix is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoenix
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,884 people
- Posen
- Pullman
- Riverdale
- Robbins
- South Englewood
- South Englewood is located in Cook County
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- Washington Heights
- Washington Heights is located in Cook County
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- Worth
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 Burr Oak Cemetery. The following communities are located in Cook County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Burr Oak Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Blue Island
- Harvey
- Midlothian
- Orland Park
- Palos Heights
- Robbins
- Washington Heights
- Worth
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites 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 Burr Oak Cemetery:
- Pages specific to Illinois:
- Pages specific to Cook 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 Burr Oak Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #104954
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #405258 (Burr Oak Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #405258 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: Cook
- Est. Elev: 190 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Blue Island
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Cook, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Burr Oak Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
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