Cemetery Land. How do they do it?

Considering the size of an average casket at 28" X 84" (2'4" X 7'), a 4' X 10' lot is all you need to accommodate a decent burial. That's only 40 sq.ft. of ground so an acre of cemetery can have as many as 1,000 lots or more. Just imagine, for a 100- acre site, you can fit in over 100,000 lots! It'd take a very long time for an average cemetery to be filled up at that rate.

Cemeteries do get filled up though, in which case they'll buy up adjacent lands or else just maintain what they have and open a new cemetery at another location. Some cemeteries have also build crypts where caskets can be placed in niches at several levels in a mausoleum, thus saving a lot of land compared to normal burial lots. It's like building high-rise apartments rather than one-family homes.

Usually the larger the original area of the cemetary the better. Cemetaries are really well planned communities. Most own several more acres then they've already developed. Really, a cemetary can get full. That's why a lot of families buy several plots at one time-even before the need.

They are zoned through City's Planning Commissions, and designated sometimes vacant land that no one wants to purchase. Are you KOO KOO for Cocoa Puffs, Denny?