Welcome to the Casselton City Cemetery. Please review the rules and policies above for information or to help answer any questions you might have.
Inquiries about the cemetery can be made at the city hall at 702 1st St N, cityoffice@casselton.org or 701-347-4861 x11
The Cemetery Manager is Jon Carley and he can be reached at 701-347-5540.
The Casselton Cemetery Association maintains a map with a searchable engine to locate loved ones buried in the city cemetery or assist you with your genealogy searches.
Cemetery map navigation tip:
Some graves have both 1 casket and 1 cremation burial, in the event that a 2nd loved one is sharing the same grave and you would like to see their information, click on the grave,
scroll down to Related Tables: Cemetery Related Records, click on the arrow to the right. This will show additional information for that grave.
If you have difficulty with the map or you find an error, please email Becky.
Casselton Cemetery History
The first cemetery in Casselton was located on the north side of town on Lots 5 and 6 of Block 1 per the Original Casselton plat. This location is approximately the southeast corner of 1st St and 9th Ave N.
As the city grew, it was moved to a location on Swan Creek just south of the bridge (no longer present) and on the west side of Langer Ave. This would probably be Lots 7 and 8 of Block 29 in the Aldrich and Tuttle’s Addition.
Sometime between 1880 and 1884, the cemetery was moved to the present location at 4th St and 9th Ave S. At that time, seventeen graves were moved to the new location.
On November 20, 1911, the first Board of Trustees of the City Cemetery of Casselton was organized. Click Here to read the 1912 Rules and Regulations of the Casselton Cemetery
The cemetery board is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the physical grounds which includes mowing, gravestone and grave maintenance, weed spraying, planting grass on new graves, tree trimming, and tree replacement. The board also oversees the sales of plots, collection of burial fees, and maintenance and custody of burial records.
The City Cemetery and St. Leo’s Cemetery are located side by side. The two cemeteries cover twenty-six acres in total where the city owns eighteen acres and St. Leo’s owns eight acres.
As of 2013, there were 2,263 graves in the city cemetery with fifteen to twenty interments taking place per year.
If interested in purchasing lots contact the Cemetery Manager, Jon Carley at 701-347-5540
Casselton Cemetery Board
Becky Dunker - Chairman
Ralph Johnson, Jr
Lee Anderson
Phillip Loy
Wanda Wilcox
Jon Carley - Cemetery Manager
Nikki Geist - Cemetery Secretary
VOLUNTEER AT THE CEMETERY
If you or your organization would like to volunteer to pick up branches, pull weeds, maintain flowers at the front entrance, rake leaves, or tidy up headstones, you may do so without permission. Your efforts are very greatly appreciated.
Please do not use any type of ground or cleaning chemicals without permission from the Cemetery Board or Cemetery Manager.
If you have questions, please call 701-347-4861 x11
DONATIONS & Memorials
Donations for the perpetual care of the Casselton Cemetery are very much appreciated and can be made online at:
Or by mail to:
Casselton Cemetery Assn.
PO Box 548
Casselton, ND 58012
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS - SPRING OF 2024
MARY McINTYRE
JOE MORKEN
HARVEY MORKEN
BONNIE SAYERS
LEE & JACKIE ANDERSON
WAYNE & BONNIE OBERLANDER
ROD & NIKKI GEIST
2024 DONATIONS IN MEMORY OF
Cleone Runck
Dawn Martinson
Shereen Faber
Dean Saewert
Garry Mischke
Virginia & Doug Jahnke
Johnson/Cooper Families
Clement, Martha & Marilyn Flath
Bill & Yvonne McConnell
Jim & Marie Dooley
Baby Boy Buccholz
Gerald & June Viestenz
Roy & Louise Johnson
James E Antonovich
Roy H. Johnson
Viestenz Memorial Fund
Vets Club Board
Lawrence & Florence Trieglaff
Janice Boyce
Lucille Kingsley