Dry Valley Cemetery lies in the south of Cherry County, west of Nebraska Highway 97 north of Mullen, in Section 6 of Township 26, Range 32. The land for it was donated by Robert Boyer. There is no town of its own here. It is listed under Brownlee, the nearest village in Cherry County, about twenty-four miles to the east. Mullen is closer — about fifteen miles to the south — but lies in Hooker County.
It stands beside the Dry Valley Church, and the two together were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 3 July 2007, as one contributing building and one contributing site. The church's cornerstone was laid on 3 June 1911 and it was built of concrete blocks by E. L. Holland — an unusual material for a country church in the Sandhills, and the reason the building has lasted.
Around 86 memorials have been recorded, which is a record of what has been photographed and indexed rather than a count of everyone buried there; the National Register documentation counts roughly eighty graves.
It is the only cemetery in Cherry County on the National Register.
For burial records or plot inquiries, contact the Cherry County Clerk in Valentine. Ownership can also be confirmed through the Nebraska Statewide Cemetery Registry at the State Historical Society.