Data sources
What is imported, what is only linked to, and on what terms.
Imported into this directory
VA National Cemetery Administration: Find a Cemetery
- Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration
- Pages: all national cemeteries, all VA grant-funded cemeteries, and the VA’s own page for each national cemetery
- Terms: works of the U.S. government, in the public domain
- Retrieved: November 11, 2026
- Used for: the list of cemeteries, names, addresses, phone numbers, burial-space status, official web addresses, hours, and the VA’s text on history, notable burials and policies, reproduced with attribution.
VA National Cemetery Sites (dataset)
- Catalog page: catalog.data.gov · CC0 1.0 (as stated on catalog.data.gov) · catalog last modified August 11, 2026
- Retrieved: November 11, 2026 · 170 rows
- Used for: map coordinates only. The dataset omits cemeteries opened in recent years, so it is no longer used as the list of sites.
VA Facilities API
- Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · developer.va.gov · public domain
- Used for: each site’s VA facility ID and time zone, and the map position of sites that the dataset above does not cover. It is read when the directory is rebuilt; this website does not call it while you browse.
- Note: the current copy was taken from the VA’s developer test environment on November 11, 2026, after checking that all of its cemetery records match the VA’s public listing. It will be replaced from the production service once the VA approves access.
U.S. Census Geocoder
- Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau · geocoding.geo.census.gov · public domain
- Used for: placing a cemetery on the map from its street address when the VA dataset has no coordinates for it.
U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer Files, 2025
- Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau · Gazetteer files
- Terms: U.S. government work in the public domain.
- Used for: the approximate center point of a ZIP code or city you type into the search, so results can be sorted by straight-line distance. No cemetery information comes from it.
Linked to, not copied
These official services hold records this site does not reproduce. We send you to them.
- VA Nationwide Gravesite Locator — the VA’s search for individual burial locations.
- Veterans Legacy Memorial — the VA’s memorial pages for individual veterans.
- VA Find a Cemetery — official cemetery pages, including state and tribal veterans cemeteries.
- Arlington National Cemetery — managed by the U.S. Army.
- American Battle Monuments Commission — overseas cemeteries and memorials.
Evaluated and not used
National Cemetery Administration Gravesite Locator dataset
The VA publishes a bulk file of individual gravesite records through data.gov. We have examined its structure. It is not used on this site: no individual’s record is imported, searchable or displayed here. Publishing records about named people would first need a family correction process and a privacy policy to match, and those do not exist yet.
USVA Cemetery Sites
A second catalog entry with the same 170 rows as the coordinates dataset above. Compared field by field: identical, so it adds nothing.
Agency figures quoted on the homepage
- 158 cemeteries the VA describes as VA-managed — cem.va.gov, checked October 27, 2026.
- 125 VA grant-funded state, territorial and tribal veterans cemeteries — cem.va.gov, checked October 27, 2026.
- 26 permanent overseas military cemeteries reported by the ABMC — abmc.gov, checked October 27, 2026.
Maps
Interactive maps are drawn with MapLibre using map tiles from OpenFreeMap, built on data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Every map is accompanied by the same locations as text.
Citing an agency is not an endorsement
No agency named here has reviewed or endorsed this site. See the methodology for how each source is handled.