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National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, also known as Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery, is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona. It encompasses 225 acres (91 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 43,672 interments. It is one of two national cemeteries in Arizona (the other is Prescott ...
Arizona has provided services to Arizona Veterans since 1925, six years after the First World War (1914/1917-1918), when it created the position of a solitary Veterans’ Service Officer. This position was abolished 26 years later, following World War II (1939/1941-1945),and in the midst of the Korean War (1950-1953), in 1951 and was replaced ...
Trinity Presbyterian Church Cemetery; Yavapai County Cemetery (Ainsworth Street), next to the Mountain View Cemetery of Prescott [271] [205] Yavapain County Cemetery (Iron Springs Road) [205] Yavapai-Prescott Tribe; Prescott Valley. Angeline Hoagland Gravesite [272] Prescott Valley Arizona Moose Memorial Grounds; Rimrock. Casner Family Cemetery
Many post cemeteries have been given national cemetery status as late as 2020, which is considerably later than the original cemetery. For example, Vancouver Barracks post cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec.
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Prescott National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Prescott, in Yavapai County, Arizona. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 15.4 acres (6.2 ha), and has over 7,500 interments.
It currently serves as the office of the historic "Pioneer and Military Cemetery". [8] The "Bird's eye view of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona" map, created in 1885 by Czar James Dyer, is on display in the main room of the Smurthwaite House. In 1899, Dyer served as Phoenix's acting mayor. [9]
The agency opened the 120-plus acre cemetery near Fairchild Air Force Base in 2010. It held more than 900 services last year. State cemeteries complement 135 national cemeteries, including Tahoma ...