About the District
The San Juan County
Cemetery District #3 is a public tax district, formed by the vote of residents and
property owners of Orcas Island in 1985. The District maintains two
cemeteries on Orcas Island.
Woodlawn Cemetery was established in 1890 through land purchased by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The original name was the "M.E. Cemetery, " and in 1908, the name "Woodlawn" was adopted. In 1929, the M.E. Church transferred the cemetery property to a separate board of trustees, with direction to form a Cemetery Association. The "Woodlawn Cemetery Association of Orcas Island" was formed as a non-profit corporation in 1942, and administered the cemetery until 1985, when the taxpayers of Orcas Island formed a tax district to assume stewardship.
Mt. Baker Cemetery,
also established in
1890, was originally named "Orcas Island Cemetery" and was operated
by the "Orcas Island Cemetery
Association," a private, not-for-profit association. Mt. Baker
Cemetery maintained itself as a private cemetery until 2009, at
which time the Association was dissolved and the cemetery was gifted
to and
received into the District.
Woodlawn Cemetery
offers plots for full casket and urn burials. Mt. Baker Cemetery is
restricted to urn burials only.
Board meetings for the San Juan County Cemetery District #3 are the first Wednesday of every month, and are open to the public.
January 2022 General
Meeting Agenda for
January 5, 2022
December 2021 General
Meeting Agenda for
December 1, 2021
November 2021 General
Meeting Agenda for
November 3, 2021
October 2021 General
Meeting Agenda for October 6, 2021
September 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for September 1, 2021
August 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for August 4, 2021
July 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for July 7, 2021
June 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for June 2, 2021
May 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for May 5, 2021
April 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for April 7, 2021
March 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for March 3, 2021
February 2021 General Meeting
Agenda for February 3, 2021