ALACHUA COUNTY CEMETERY LOCATIONS

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Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization, and
North Central Florida Regional Planning Council;
Gainesville, Florida

The methods used in creating this layer were very consistent.  The shapefile had one author and all listed sources were consulted to verify locations of features.  This included field visits to many of the sites in question.

Many cemeteries from the past have not been located due to lost records, lack of maintenance, lost grave markers, or a combination thereof.  Of the sources that were consulted, the majority of the listed cemeteries has been demarcated.  There are still several small family burials that have been lost in time, as well as possible larger ones.  Some cemeteries that were once thought lost are located in this layer.

The existing data from Geoplan and the FDOS included about 40 cemeteries for Alachua County.  The SCE map, using additional local sources, contains over 108 sites. Gilchrist County showed a bigger improvement.  This layer can benefit significantly from the SCE mapping effort. Cemeteries were a major emphasis for several reasons:  they appear to be important for FDOT planning purposes; there is a great deal of information available for some counties, such as Alachua; existing maps do not reflect the available information.   Methods to locate cemeteries are very different from most other layers - the standard data sources, such as parcel data and the yellow pages, are not generally helpful.  Aerial photos and a variety of local sources tend to be very useful.  Most counties have individual experts or historical societies that can provide critical information. Only a small portion of all burial areas have been located, and the smaller, private cemeteries may never be well-documented.  But most of the larger cemeteries associated with churches and towns or otherwise recorded can be mapped.

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