DatasetGNIS 1625037
- Concepts
- toponymyheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
This record preserves the GNIS name row Isle du Castor for the current feature
Beaver Island (feature id 1625037). The held extract classifies the row
as variant. 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- Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?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 The American Guide Series, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration. A state by state guide series published by various publishers, in the late 1930's and 1940's. Each book studies and describes each state's history, natural endowments, and special interests. Use code US-T125/Name/YYYY/p#. GNIS associates the exact form 'Isle du Castor' with feature 'Beaver Island' (feature id 1625037); this row is classified as variant in the held extract. The identical extract is also present in the consolidated /data1 archive.federal · gnis · gnis_variant_names