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GNIS name record: Little Sandy Bay

Also Little Sand Bay

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

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WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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DatasetGNIS 630757
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Summary

This record preserves the GNIS name row Little Sandy Bay for the current feature Little Sand Bay (feature id 630757). 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  • Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?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

  1. USGS Geographic Names Information System, All Names (national), retrieved 2026-07-28.
    Source-row citation: Map U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1:62,500-scale topographic maps; various edition dates. Represents new or changed names from published editions. Map name and year of publication follow (if known): GNIS associates the exact form 'Little Sandy Bay' with feature 'Little Sand Bay' (feature id 630757); this row is classified as variant in the held extract. The identical extract is also present in the consolidated /data1 archive.
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