DatasetGNIS 1777333
- Concepts
- toponymyheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
This record preserves the GNIS name row Mackinac Channel for the current feature
Mackinac Channel (feature id 1777333). 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- Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?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 U.S. Board on Geographic Names Geographic Names Post Phase I Board/Staff Revisions 2000-01-01 00:00:00 Board decisions referenced after Phase I data compilation or staff researched non-controversial names. GNIS associates the exact form 'Mackinac Channel' with feature 'Mackinac Channel' (feature id 1777333); this row is classified as official in the held extract. The row gives publication date metadata 01/01/2000. The identical extract is also present in the consolidated /data1 archive.federal · gnis · gnis_variant_names