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{{Short description|Veterans cemetery in Bent County, Colorado}}
{{Infobox cemetery
| name        = Fort Lyon National Cemetery
| image       = Fort Lyon National Cemetery.JPG
| imagesize   = 260
| caption     = The cemetery in 2013.
| map_type    =
| map_size    =
| map_caption =
| established = 1887
| country     = [[United States]]
| location    = [[Bent County, Colorado]]
| coordinates = {{coord|38|05|05|N|103|07|46|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}
| type        = [[United States National Cemetery]]
| style       =
| owner       =  [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]
| size        = {{convert|52|acre|ha}}
| graves      = >2,750
| website     = [http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftlyon.asp Official]
| findagraveid= 57289
}}

'''Fort Lyon National Cemetery''' is a [[United States National Cemetery]] located near the city of [[Las Animas, Colorado|Las Animas]] in [[Bent County, Colorado]]. It encompasses 51.9 acres (21.0 hectares) and as of 2014 had 2,556 interments. It is administered by the [[Fort Logan National Cemetery]] in [[Denver County, Colorado]].

== History ==
Named for the first [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] General to die in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], [[Nathaniel Lyon]], the cemetery was established as part of [[Fort Lyon]] the first time in 1887. The fort was abandoned in 1897 and the remains buried in the cemetery were transferred to [[Fort McPherson National Cemetery]] in [[Nebraska]]. In 1906 the fort buildings were converted into a sanitarium to treat soldiers and prisoners of war with [[tuberculosis]], and burials began in 1907. The cemetery was transferred to the National Cemetery system in 1973 to be managed by the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs]].  It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2017.

== See also ==
* [[List of cemeteries in Colorado]]

== External links ==
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* [http://www.cem.va.gov/ National Cemetery Administration]
* [http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftlyon.asp Fort Lyon National Cemetery]
* {{HALS |survey=CO-3 |id=co0924 |title=Fort Lyon National Cemetery, 15700 Country Road HH, Las Animas, Bent, CO}}
* {{GNIS|type=retired|195525}}
* {{Find a Grave cemetery}}

{{Forts in Colorado}}

[[Category:Cemeteries in Colorado]]
[[Category:Protected areas of Bent County, Colorado]]
[[Category:United States national cemeteries]]
[[Category:Historic American Landscapes Survey in Colorado]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Bent County, Colorado]]
[[Category:Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado]]
[[Category:1887 establishments in Colorado]]
[[Category:1897 disestablishments in the United States]]
[[Category:1907 establishments in Colorado]]
[[Category:Cemeteries established in the 1880s]]