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City Departments

Parks & Recreation

Southfield Cemetery
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The Southfield Cemetery, located on Civic Center Drive between Lahser and Berg roads, has grave sites for sale to the public at moderate rates. The Cemetery is operated and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department. The Cemetery is a historic site, with graves dating back to the 1830's. For information call (248) 796-4620.

Cemetery Rates
Price of a Plot  $800 
Interment – Weekdays  $700 
Interment – Weekends  $800 
Disinterment  $700 
Cremations  $350 
Headstone Foundations   

1' x 2'

 $100

Up to 30"

 $120

Up to 48"

 $140

Up to 60"

 $160
 

Did You Know?


  • The Parks & Recreation Department is responsible for over 780 acres of park land and open spaces at 33 sites throughout the City, including 333 acres of dedicated nature preserves.

  • The City of Southfield is the home of Michigan’s first baseball field for children with any physical or mental disability. Working with The Miracle League, the City constructed a special field designed with a custom synthetic turf and handicapped accessible dugouts, restrooms and drinking fountains.
  • The restoration of the Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve won the 2009 Environmental Project of the Year from the Michigan Chapter of the American Public Work Association.
  • The Parks & Recreation Department offers hundreds of recreation programs at facilities which include two nine-hole golf courses, a lighted driving range, a 50-meter outdoor swimming pool, a senior adult center, an indoor athletic field house, an indoor ice arena and a neighborhood recreation center.

  • The sand volleyball courts at Civic Center Park were named Best In Detroit by the readers of Real Detroit Weekly Magazine in their annual Real Best of Detroit for 2009.