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.
July 2025 General
Meeting Agenda for July
2, 2025
June 2025 General
Meeting Agenda for June
4, 2025
May 2025 General Meeting
Agenda for May 7, 2025
April 2025 General Meeting Agenda for
April 2, 2025
March 2025 General
Meeting Agenda for
March 5, 2025
February 2025 General
Meeting Agenda for
February 5, 2025
January 2025 General
Meeting Agenda for
January 8, 2025
December 2024 General
Meeting Agenda for
December 4, 2024
November 2024 General
Meeting Agenda for
November 6, 2024
October 2024 General
Meeting Agenda for
October 2, 2024
September 2024 General
Meeting Agenda for
September 4, 2024
August 2024 General Meeting Agenda for August 7,
2024