DatasetGNIS 1616291
- Concepts
- toponymyheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
This record preserves the GNIS name row Whisky Island for the current feature
Whiskey Island (feature id 1616291). 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- Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?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: Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) typo Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. GNIS associates the exact form 'Whisky Island' with feature 'Whiskey Island' (feature id 1616291); this row is classified as variant in the held extract. The row gives publication date metadata 12/31/1981. The identical extract is also present in the consolidated /data1 archive.federal · gnis · gnis_variant_names