The cemetery is located on the north side of Wabash Avenue In Terra Haute. Its main entrance is about 400 feet east of the intersection of Wabash Avenue and Keane Lane. The cemetery is owned by the city of Terra Haute, opened in 1884, and is 139 acres in size.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-81-41 (Highland Lawn Cemetery).
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 436168 (Highland Lawn Cemetery).