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Calverton National Cemetery

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Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island in New York. The cemetery's street address is in Calverton but the property is in the adjacent hamlet of Wading River. It encompasses 1,045 acres (423 ha) and as of the end of 2008 had 212,000 interments.[1]

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Calverton National Cemetery
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Established1978
Location
Calverton, New York
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°55′55″N 72°48′55″W
TypePublic
Owned byUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs
Size1,045 acres (423 ha)
No. of graves275,000
WebsiteVA Official Site
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Some of the fields in the cemetery have flat grave markers.
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Sign at the entrance of the cemetery

It has the largest area of any national cemetery in the United States,[2] and the busiest (in terms of daily burials) conducting more than 7,000 burials each year as of 2011.[3]