Boot Hill Cemetery

Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, USA

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Get directions Dodge City, Kansas, USA

Coordinates: 37.75448, -100.02228
This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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Please do not create memorial pages in this defunct Boot Hill Cemetery. Those thought to have been originally buried at Boot Hill now have pages in Maple Grove Cemetery.

In 1878, all graves were moved from Boot Hill to the then new (now defunct) Prairie Grove Cemetery.

According to The Dodge City Globe of February 4th, 1879 . . . The skeletons removed from the graves on Boot Hill were found to be in a fine state of preservation . . . . Only a few of them could be recognized, . . . They are now all resting side by side, like one happy family, at the lower end of (the now defunct) Prairie Grove Cemetery, northwest of the city. . . .

According to The Dodge City Globe of September 6th, 1887, the County Clerk was taking bids "for moving the county dead from the old cemetery (Prairie Grove) to the county plat, 'Maple Grove Cemetery,' and interment of same" . . .

Please do not create memorial pages in this defunct Boot Hill Cemetery. Those thought to have been originally buried at Boot Hill now have pages in Maple Grove Cemetery.

In 1878, all graves were moved from Boot Hill to the then new (now defunct) Prairie Grove Cemetery.

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Percent photographed86%
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