- Intersects
- Hannon Drive
- Coordinates
- 45.7395° N, 85.5357° WGoogle Maps: County RoadDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
County 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 180 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
No source-confirmed non-road entity is linked yet. Exact-name research leads remain in scripts/audit_road_links.py; a name collision is not treated as a road association.
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 1674 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 'County Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17758804. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
- Discusses Charlevoix County Road Commission responsibilities and named Beaver Island roads, but does not identify the short OSM segment named County Road.
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “County Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/county-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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