Gravesite Guide lists 579 historic African American cemeteries and burial grounds in the United States, with the recorded fields of each: its name, its locality and state, its coordinates where recorded, its founding date where recorded, and its National Register of Historic Places reference number and listing date where recorded.
The records were gathered from Wikidata (CC0), from the Wikipedia article "List of African American cemeteries", and, for the National Register fields, from the National Park Service National Register of Historic Places bulk data export national-register-listed_20260522.xlsx. The National Register fields were applied on 2026-08-29 by normalizing each record's name and state and matching them exactly against the export's Property Name and State columns; a match was kept only where an exact county-or-city match confirmed it, or where a National Register reference number already held in this catalog agreed with the single candidate the export returned. No fuzzy matching was used, and a record with no exact name-and-state match keeps an empty National Register field rather than a guess. Every cemetery page carries the same source line, and each links to its Wikidata item.
The descriptive content that earlier versions of this site carried for each cemetery — historical, community, interment, preservation, visiting and how-to-help sections, and the essay guides and preservation pages — was not drawn from any source that could be named, and those sections and pages were removed on 2026-10-02 after a review. No replacement text was written for them.