Alabama National Cemetery, Military cemetery in Montevallo, United States.

The Alabama National Cemetery is a burial ground south of Birmingham that serves veterans and their eligible family members. The grounds span hundreds of acres and provide space for different types of burial arrangements.

The Mobile National Cemetery closed to interments in the 1990s, and the only other Alabama site, Fort Mitchell near Phenix City, lay 150 miles southeast. The National Cemetery Act of 2003 authorized six new burial sites in areas with at least 170,000 veteran residents and no existing national cemetery, Birmingham among them. The Department of Veterans Affairs bought this 479-acre site in July 2007 for about $8 million and hired Civil Consultants, Inc. that September to design it. Grounds were consecrated June 18, 2009, and interments began June 25, 2009.

The cemetery is named for the state, not for a tribe; the sources record no Muskogee settlement on the Montevallo tract. What visitors can see today are the results of the 2008-2009 build: an entrance, internal roadways, an administration and maintenance building, a public information center and two shelters used for services in bad weather. The grounds were consecrated on June 18, 2009, a week before interments began.

The cemetery lies in Montevallo, about 35 miles south of Birmingham; the other Alabama national cemetery, Fort Mitchell, is 150 miles southeast near Phenix City. The first phase added an entrance, internal roadways, an administration and maintenance building, a public information center and two shelters for services in bad weather. Drainage, fencing, landscaping and irrigation were built with it.

The site was originally designed to hold a thousand in-ground cremations and a thousand casket burials. Later expansions substantially grew the capacity to meet continuing demand.