Cable's Creek Road

Road

Intersects

East Side Drive

Coordinates

45.5968° N, 85.5191° WGoogle Maps: Cable's Creek RoadDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Cable’s Creek Road 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 726 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:

• Parcel III, North Arm of Lake Geneserath — In March 2002, Ed Wojan Realty advertised Parcel III of the North Arm on Lake Geneserath as an approximately one-acre parcel with 140 feet of lake frontage on the north side of Hemlock Point, also called Whitetail Point. The listing described hardwoods and conifers, a cleared lake view, and possible cabin or fishing-cabin use at an asking price of $59,500.…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 2 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