Dresden Cemetery

Dresden Cemetery is a cemetery in Aux Sable Township, Grundy, Illinois. Dresden Cemetery is situated nearby to the town Channahon, as well as near Minooka.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dresden Generating Station and Morris Operation.

Dresden Generating Station

Power station

Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain.

Dresden Generating Station is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Dresden Generating Station is situated 1 mile southeast of Dresden Cemetery.

Morris Operation

The Morris Operation in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel. Morris Operation is situated 1½ miles south of Dresden Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Channahon and Minooka.

Channahon

Town

Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Channahon is a village in Grundy and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,383 at the 2020 census. Located in a rural area southwest of Joliet, Illinois, Channahon lies at the confluence of the Des Plaines, Kankakee, and DuPage rivers, where they form the Illinois River. Channahon is situated 3 miles northeast of Dresden Cemetery.

Minooka

Town

Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.

Minooka is a village in Grundy, Kendall, and Will counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,758 at the 2020 census, up from 10,924 at the 2010 census. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Minooka is situated 3½ miles north of Dresden Cemetery.

Dresden Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Also known as: “Old Saint Mary’s Cemetery”
Category: burial
Location: Aux Sable Township, Grundy, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.40355° or 41° 24′ 13″ north

Longitude

-88.27696° or 88° 16′ 37″ west

Elevation

564 feet (172 metres)

Open location code

86HHCP3F+C6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1243664412

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

GeoNames ID

4890161

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