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Cost for Nicholasville's Maple Grove Cemetery plots increases

July 13, 2011|By Mike Moore | mmoore@jessaminejournal.com

By burying 75-100 people per year in the city of Nicholasville-run Maple Grove Cemetery, in about a year and a half the cemetery will be completly full, city commissioner Andy Williams said.

“That Richmond Avenue area is filling up quick,” Williams said during Monday’s city commission meeting.
This was the primary reason the city commission approved to raise the rates for opening and closing graves in the cemetery during Monday’s meeting.

As of Aug. 1, charges for opening and closing the graves for the burial of city and Jessamine County residents before 3 p.m. will be $800, up from $600. The cost of burying a loved one after 3 p.m. will jump to $1,000, up from $700.

Burials on city-recognized holidays — New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Indepenence Day, Labor Day, election day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas — will jump from $850 to $1,000, according to ordinance 807-2011.

Burial costs for non-Jessamine County residents will increase from $1,000 to $1,300 before 3 p.m. After 3 p.m., the cost increases from $1,100 to $1,400; on city-recognized holidays the cost goes from $1,200 to $1,500.

Williams said the cost increase is necessary because soon the city will have to purchase more land to continue the cemetery services.

“We’re trying to increase our revenue so we can buy more property for the cemetery, which is badly needed,” Williams said.

Williams said the cemetery has limited spaces available.

“We are somewhere between 100 and 150 graves left in the cemetery,” he said. Williams was unsure of the total number of gravesites in the cemetery, but guessed it would exceed 10,000. “We’re averaging somewhere between 75 and 100 burials a year,” he said.

Williams said the city has been making plans for expanding the cemetery.

“We’ve targeted some property up on Central Avenue that the city can get for a very reasonable price, and with the (cost) increases, it’s going to help pay for it, plus it will also bring in more revenue for the city,” Williams said.

Williams said the area the city is looking at has three houses on it at the present time.

“One of them is empty, and we’d be able to disassemble that one pretty quick, and we could actually use the good house that’s up there right now as rental property, there’s people living up there right now, and we could continue to use that as rental property until we needed the space, and that could also bring in more revenue,” Williams said.

For more information about Maple Grove Cemetery, call 885-4334.

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