Lanier Cemetery

Lanier Cemetery is a cemetery in Madison, Alabama. Lanier Cemetery is situated nearby to the tower Interim Test Stand.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Interim Test Stand and Marshall Space Flight Center.

Interim Test Stand

Tower

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

The Redstone Test Stand or Interim Test Stand was used to develop and test fire the Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle. Interim Test Stand is situated 3,100 feet northeast of Lanier Cemetery.

Marshall Space Flight Center

Research institute

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. Marshall Space Flight Center is situated 1½ miles north of Lanier Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Triana and Lily Flagg.

Triana

Town

Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Triana is a municipality in southwest Madison County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville–Decatur–Albertville combined statistical area. The population was 2,890 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 4,936 in 2024. Triana is situated 4½ miles southwest of Lanier Cemetery.

Lily Flagg

Hamlet

Signal's Lily Flagg 31035, also spelled Flag, was a Jersey cow, the top butter producer in the world in 1892, owned by W. E. Matthews and General Samuel H. Lily Flagg is situated 6 miles east of Lanier Cemetery.

Lanier Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Category: burial
Location: Madison, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.62537° or 34° 37′ 31″ north

Longitude

-86.67055° or 86° 40′ 14″ west

Elevation

594 feet (181 metres)

Open location code

866MJ8GH+4Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358983267

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=grave_yard

GeoNames ID

4071826

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