National Cemetery Administration

Visitation Hours: Open daily from sunrise to sunset. For more information about Fargo National Cemetery, call 701-451-4650.

Office Hours at Fargo Regional Benefit Office: Monday thru Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., when not serving families at the Fargo National Cemetery. Closed federal holidays.

This cemetery offers burial space for casketed remains for in-ground burial and cremated remains for in-ground burial and columbarium burial. The cemetery also provides a memorial wall for eligible individuals.

Burial in a national cemetery is open to all members of the armed forces who have met a minimum active duty service requirement and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.

A Veteran's spouse, widow or widower, minor dependent children, and under certain conditions, unmarried adult children with disabilities may also be eligible for burial. Eligible spouses and children may be buried even if they predecease the Veteran.

Members of the reserve components of the armed forces who die while on active duty or who die while on training duty, or were eligible for retired pay, may also be eligible for burial.

» Eligibility for Burial in a VA National Cemetery

Fax all discharge documentation to the National Cemetery Scheduling Office at 1-866-900-6417 and follow-up with a phone call to 1-800-535-1117.

For information on scheduled burials in our national cemeteries, please go to the Daily Burial Schedule.

Fargo National Cemetery is a new 4.82-acre Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) national cemetery located in southeast North Dakota. The cemetery will serve the burial needs of more than 30,000 Veterans, their spouses and eligible family members.

This is the first national cemetery built in North Dakota and is part of the VA National Cemetery Administration Rural Initiative to provide access to VA burial benefits for Veterans who reside in rural areas and who have not previously had reasonable access to a national or state Veterans cemetery.

The cemetery was dedicated on September 7, 2019. First interments will take place shortly thereafter. The first phase of cemetery development will offer more than 3,000 casket and cremation spaces to accommodate burials for the next 10 years. The cemetery will provide burials for caskets, in-ground and columbarium burials for cremations, as well as a memorial wall for remains that are unrecoverable or identified, were buried at sea, donated to science or cremated and remains scattered.

Mailing Address for Fargo National Cemetery:

For educational materials and additional information on this cemetery, please visit the Education section, located below.

Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.

• Fresh cut flowers may be placed on graves at any time of the year. Portable cone containers for flowers can be found throughout the cemetery in stone containers. Flowers will be disposed of by cemetery personnel when they are withered, faded or otherwise unsightly.
• Artificial flowers may only be placed on graves from October 1 through April 1 because the wires from artificial flowers have caused damage to the mowing equipment and pose a safety hazard to workers and visitors during mowing operations. They will be removed when they are faded or unsightly.
• Floral items should only be placed at either side of headstones in line with the headstone row. This allows for equipment operations and prevents damage to floral items. Flower items should be placed at the bottom of a column at the Columbarium.
• Floral items and other types of decorations will not be secured to headstones, markers, or niches. NO GLASS or METAL of any kind is allowed.
• The cemetery assumes no responsibility for items left on gravesites. Due to the open nature of the grounds, we cannot guarantee against theft, vandalism, or the effects of nature.
• Planting of flowers, shrubs, potted plants, etc. are prohibited. 
• Christmas wreaths or grave blankets may be placed on graves from November 1st–January 20th. They will be removed after January 20th or when they become withered, faded or otherwise unsightly. Grave floral blankets cannot be larger in size than 2 x 3 feet. They cannot be secured to headstones or markers.
• Permanent plantings, statues, vigil lights, breakable objects, pinwheels, balloons, glass, shepherd's hooks, toys and stuffed animals and similar commemorative items are not permitted on the graves at any time.
• Small US, POW/MIA, US Armed Forces Branches, and Medal of Honor gravesite flags are authorized.
• Pets are not allowed in the National Cemetery. Working, licensed service dogs are permitted at any time.
• Sports or recreational activities of any kind are prohibited.
• Smoking is not allowed on the grounds, in any building, or the committal shelter.
• During the lawn mowing and grounds maintenance season, floral items will be removed from graves every week. The lawn mowing schedule is available from the cemetery staff.

Fargo National Cemetery is the second Rural Initiative cemetery in the nation, and the first to be built by the VA's National Cemetery Administration. The VA purchased the land in June 2016 and awarded a contract to build the cemetery in July 2017. The cemetery was dedicated on September 7, 2019.