I am seeking a searchable list of the Jewish cemeteries in the USA, especially the larger, still active cemeteries. By searchable, I mean that it is possible to search by cemetery name and also sort by cemetery name.
Ideally, the list would contain: cemetery name street address city state URL
Any suggestions?
Your best bet is to check the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies: IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project.
On their United States Page, they have almost 1400 Jewish burial sites cataloged from every state. One burial site (e.g. a town or district) may contain several Jewish cemeteries.
They try to give location and contact information for each cemetery, including address, phone and/or email, and website if they have one. There may be a lot more information as well, including history of the cemetery, the number of burials, and some even have a burial list or point you to other information.
They also have a wonderful Please Read First section, which includes among other information: What Makes a Cemetery Jewish?
Another possibility is to look at the list of members of the Jewish Cemetery Association of North America:
https://www.jcana.org/members/all-members
Some of the members are cemeteries, and some are regional associations, such as the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, which has address information on over 200 Jewish cemeteries in the state, even if they are not members of the association:
https://www.jcam.org/Pages/Cemeteries/Cemetery_Pages/Alpha_by_Name.htm
Note in this case they list 222 cemeteries, while JOWBR lists 158 cemeteries, and the IAJGS site lists 62 burial locations for the state. Some of the discrepancy may have to do with how cemeteries are defined, and if a cemetery with 10 sections owned by different organizations is considered one cemetery or 10, but either way this kind of checking should provide more information.
OpenStreetMap data (OSM) is interesting source of data - contains also cemeteries from all over the world - including position and description. Unfortunately it is quite hard to extract from the OSM database. Luckily I have found a service that can extract cemeteries from OSM database for US countries, regions and cities and export to various formats - KML, CSV, XLSX...
