Airport Road

Road

Intersects

Donnel Mor's Lane · Paid een Og's Road

Coordinates

45.6926° N, 85.5595° WGoogle Maps: Airport RoadDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Airport Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. The two held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry of about 1.0 km. It meets two other named roads, listed under intersects_road.

Evidence and limits

The name and the alignment are what mappers last entered, and OpenStreetMap is volunteered work rather than a survey: it settles neither the right-of-way nor who maintains the road. Where the name came from is a separate question. Plats, road-commission minutes, and island memory answer that one. Put an older spelling from any of them into alt_names or former_names, with the source that attests it.

Documented associations

These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:

• Karl Kuebler improves the Beaver Island Airport, 1962 — By November 1962, Karl Kuebler had cleared woods around the Beaver Island Airport parking area, built up the access road, and was widening the north–south runway. The Beacon credits him with doing much of the work using his truck and reports nearly 400 registered planes for the year.
• January 1962 snow and drifting isolate parts of Beaver Island — The February 1962 Beaver Beacon describes January as a month of severe snow and drifting. It reports a January high of 36°F, a low of 0°F, 18 days with snow, an eight-inch snowfall on January 7, and 22.8 inches of ground accumulation. Drifts blocked the road to Willie Schmidt’s farm, crews worked on the airport road day and night, and access near the…
• Perry Crawford farm barn burns near Kings Highway, 1964 — The barn on Perry Crawford’s farm burned to the ground on August 22, 1964, according to the September Beaver Beacon. The notice identifies the property as the old McCaully Farm at Kings Highway and Airport Road, reports no injuries, and says no other building burned.
• Bruce Meixsell seeks permits for wild turkeys and pheasants on Beaver Island, 1962 — Bruce Meixsell of Dutch Acres sought permission to release hatchery turkeys on Beaver Island. The state questioned whether the birds were genuinely wild and did not renew the expired permit described in the article. Meixsell did receive a separate permit for three adult and 26 young Chinese Ringneck pheasants, expected for release in June or July. The…
• Dutch Acres — Dutch Acres was the name of Bruce Meixsell’s Beaver Island property in a March 1962 Beaver Beacon report. The article places it on Airport Road while describing Meixsell’s requests for permits to release hatchery turkeys and Chinese ringneck pheasants. This is a source-qualified property record. The map point is an approximate Airport Road route locator…
• McCaully Farm — McCaully Farm, described in 1964 as the old McCaully Farm, was the property identified with Perry Crawford’s farm at the junction of Kings Highway and Airport Road. A September 1964 Beaver Beacon report says its barn burned to the ground on August 22, while no other building burned. The name and approximate junction are preserved from the newspaper. This…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 46 file(s). Those files are research leads; the relation layer is added only when the surrounding source text establishes that the record involves this road.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes