Barney's Lake Nature Preserve Access — Beaver Island Archive

Locator map: Barney's Lake Nature Preserve Access highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Road

Intersects: Barney's Lake Road South
Coordinates: 45.7123° N, 85.5563° WGoogle Maps: Barney's Lake Nature Preserve Access Download KML
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationtoponymy
Within: Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Barney’s Lake Nature Preserve Access is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. One held way carries that name, and its geometry is the whole route: about 40 m. It meets one other named road, recorded 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:

Barney's Lake Nature Preserve — Barney’s Lake Nature Preserve is a Little Traverse Conservancy preserve in the north-central part of Beaver Island. The Conservancy describes 363 acres, open bog, sedge meadow, cedar swamp, an old farmstead, nearly three miles of trails, and frontage on both Barney’s Lake and Lake Michigan. Its current directions give 35795 Barney’s Lake Road South and say…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 0 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.

Maps for this place

These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.

EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context

Sources

OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0).
Current mapped road name "Barney's Lake Nature Preserve Access"; grouped OSM way ids: 265461108. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
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Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Barney's Lake Nature Preserve Access”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/barney-s-lake-nature-preserve-access/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

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