Tennessee Historic Cemetery Preservation Program Statewide Map and Register Now Available

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Historical Commission’s (THC) new Statewide Cemetery Map and Tennessee Historic Cemetery Register (TCHR) are now available in ArcGIS format for public use on THC’s website. The map has been populated by data from the Commission’s cemetery database, which currently contains more than 32,500 cemeteries statewide.

The public map contains various overlays which will enable the viewer to compare a cemetery’s location topographically, geographically, and even historically as Tennessee county borders have often shifted over the decades. THC hopes this map will be a valuable...