DatasetGNIS 1622957
- Concepts
- toponymyheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
This record preserves the GNIS name row Charlevoix County for the current feature
Charlevoix County (feature id 1622957). The held extract classifies the row
as official. It is a searchable catalog record, not by itself a
claim about the date of local speech, the name’s etymology, or the historical
process by which one form replaced another.
Evidence and limits
The row’s citation and publication metadata are retained in the sources:
block. GNIS is useful for joining historical forms to a current feature, but a
map, newspaper, field note, or community record is still needed to establish
who used the name and when. The companion feature article, when present, is the
place-level record rather than a substitute for this source row.
Open questions
- Which primary map or local record independently attests this exact form?
- Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?
See also
Sources
- USGS Geographic Names Information System, All Names (national), retrieved 2026-07-28.Source-row citation: Text USGS National Atlas of the United States Data from the National Atlas Data Base. This abridged version of the GNIS lists those entries found in the index of the USGS National Atlas of the United States of America as well as the entries for features that would be displayed on topographic maps at the scale of 1:250,000. GNIS associates the exact form 'Charlevoix County' with feature 'Charlevoix County' (feature id 1622957); this row is classified as official in the held extract. The identical extract is also present in the consolidated /data1 archive.federal · gnis · gnis_variant_names