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Beaver Island Public Beach

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Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeLandform
Coordinates45.5928° N, 85.5228° W
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

Beaver Island Public Beach is a GNIS-named beach on Beaver Island near Saint James. The GNIS record classifies it as a Beach and attributes the official name to Walter Romig’s Michigan Place Names (1986). A current OpenStreetMap snapshot contains a named natural-beach polygon whose GNIS feature identifier matches 2364654, providing a direct geometry for the feature. The held sources do not yet establish when public access began or whether the name refers to a single continuous frontage across changing park boundaries.

Open questions

  • Which township or park records establish the beach’s public-access history?
  • Can contemporary reporting distinguish this GNIS feature from other public beaches and beach expansions on Beaver Island?

Sources

  1. U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System, Domestic Names (Michigan), retrieved 2026-07-28.
    GNIS feature 2364654; feature class 'Beach'.
    federal · gnis · gnis_names
  2. OpenStreetMap contributors, natural features via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-07-28 (ODbL 1.0).
    Way 1136857348 matches GNIS feature 2364654 and names the mapped natural=beach polygon at the GNIS point.
    osm · natural
  3. USGS GNIS, All Names (national), retrieved 2026-07-28.
    GNIS records Walter Romig's *Michigan Place Names* (1986) as the source for the official name.
    federal · gnis · gnis_variant_names