Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery

United States National Cemetery

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 located in eastern Long Island

Long Island

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, the hamlet of Wading River

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, the Town of Riverhead

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 in Suffolk County, New York

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. It encompasses 1045 acres (4.2 km²) and as of the end of 2008 had 212,000 interments.

It has the largest area of any national cemetery in the United States, and the busiest (in terms of daily burials) conducting more than 7,000 burials each year as of 2011.
When the National Cemetery System constructed Calverton National Cemetery in 1978, the cemetery became the third national cemetery to be located on Long Island.