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With over 20,000 burials, Walnut Ridge Cemetery, situated in Clark County, is one of the largest and most established cemeteries in southern Indiana. Over nearly two centuries, Walnut Ridge has built a tradition of faithful service to the local community as a non-profit organization deeply committed to the dignity and perpetual care of those who have been entrusted to us as their place of interment.
This active cemetery is located in Jeffersonville Township on both sides of Hamburg Pike at its intersection with E. Applegate Lane and Lakeside Drive. The cemetery is almost 100 acres in size. The oldest legible monument in the cemetery is dated 1817. The cemetery was incorporated as a nonprofit entity governed by a board of trustees in 1838.
The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-10-65 (Walnut Ridge).
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 445439 (Walnut Ridge Cemetery).