Abandoned graveyard

An abandoned graveyard, which is also known as abandoned cemetery, is a graveyard that is no longer maintained. Graveyards may be abandoned for various reasons. Some reasons for abandonment of cemetery include such phenomena as; financial difficulty, natural disaster, unpleasant reputation and/or accessibility.

Quantity
According to one source, it is claimed that there are thousands of abandoned graveyards in the United States.

Identification
Locating and identifying individual grave in abandoned cemetery may be hard due to lithophytes overgrowing on the tombstone markings. In some cases, it may be difficult because the tombstones end up vandalized.

Relocation
One way of restoring abandoned graveyards is to completely relocate them to new place, such places may be; wildlife refuges, public parks or historic sites. That means relocating both the tombstone and the coffin. However, relocating grave is rather expensive, it can cost anywhere between 8,000$ to 20,000$, or in some cases even more.