Facts About the National Cemetery Administration

• NCA maintains approximately 3.5 million gravesites at 135 national cemeteries, one national Veterans’ burial ground and 33 soldiers’ lots and monument sites in 41 states and Puerto Rico.

• Approximately 406,000 full-casket gravesites, 111,000 in-ground gravesites for cremated remains,and 112,026 columbarium niches are developed in VA’s 135 national cemeteries.

• NCA manages approximately 21,400 acres within its cemeteries. Approximately 57 percent are undeveloped and, along with available gravesites in developed acreage, have the potential to
provide approximately 5.3 million gravesites.

• Of the 135 national cemeteries, 77 are open to all interments; 17 can accommodate cremated remains and the remains of family members for interment in the same gravesite as a previously
deceased family member; and 41 will perform only interments of family members in the same gravesite as a previously deceased family member.

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