- Intersects
- Main Street · Oak Road · Pine Avenue
- Coordinates
- 45.7514° N, 85.5114° WGoogle Maps: Bay StreetDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Bay Street 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 276 m.
It meets three 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:
- Beaver Island Marina — Beaver Island Marina was a harbor-side business active in the early 2000s. A 2001 Charlevoix Courier advertisement and Beaver Beacon community reports in 2003–2004 establish the name and civic presence, while current OSM mapping puts marina amenities immediately beside Bay Street in St. James. The held sources do not identify the operator, legal entity, or…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 166 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
- Current mapped road name 'Bay Street'; grouped OSM way ids: 17752168. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bay Street”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/bay-street/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..
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