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Great Blue Heron Park

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Locator map: Great Blue Heron Park highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypePlace
Coordinates45.7440° N, 85.5517° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinTownship of Saint James · Beaver Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Great Blue Heron Park highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Place
Along road
Font View Court
Coordinates
45.7440° N, 85.5517° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
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governanceenvironmentrecreation
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Township of Saint James · Beaver Island

Summary

Great Blue Heron Park is the name St. James Township gave on February 14, 2024 to parcel PIN 013-705-204-00 on Font View Court, west of Font Lake. The current county GIS snapshot has a matching parcel identifier and a source-displayed St. James Township owner label.

The project’s parcel-to-GLO candidate table also reports an exact PLSS-subdivision overlap between this current parcel and BLM patent 0122-257, issued in 1859 to the source-record grantee LORENZO HINKSTON for Section 28 Lot 4. That overlap is useful for locating the next deed or tract-book record; it is not a title chain.

Evidence and limits

The Board action establishes the naming motion, and the county snapshot provides a dated administrative and spatial reference. Neither establishes when or how the Township acquired the parcel, a legal park boundary, facilities, public access, or present ownership/title. The mapped point is the current parcel-row centroid, not a surveyed park entrance or a legal-boundary representation. The patent/current-parcel relationship remains a derived spatial candidate until conveyance records establish continuity.

See also

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

The page

Rendered from the held scan.

Great Blue Heron Park — p. 1
Held scanSt. James Township Board, approved regular-meeting minutes, February 14, 2024.Open the page image · Download this page

Sources

  1. Records the motion naming Township parcel PIN 013-705-204-00, on Font View Court west of Font Lake, Great Blue Heron Park. It does not establish a park plan, facilities, public access, a legal boundary, the date the Township acquired the parcel, or the name’s later use.
    governance · township_meetings · st-james-board · february-14-2024-approved-b1c9fca69a
  2. Described in this archive: Current named-feature and property join records.
    The dated ArcGIS row for PIN 013-705-204-00 carries the source-displayed St. James Township owner label, a Font View Court situs label, 0.5 acres, and a representative centroid, used here as the property anchor for the named park parcel. It is a current administrative/GIS snapshot, not a deed, title opinion, acquisition record, legal boundary, or proof of current access.
    county · charlevoix · parcels_arcgis · 2026-08-01 · island_parcel_attributes
  3. Described in this archive: GLO land record 0122-257-39n-10w-28-4.
    The patent source records LORENZO HINKSTON and T39N R10W Section 28 Lot 4. It establishes a federal patent transaction, not a link to the present park parcel, later conveyances, or current ownership. The holder's public portal is searchable but does not link this record directly; the archive holds a copy of the file and can provide it on request.
    federal · glo · patents · 14826347629889848275-patent-mw-0122-257
  4. The reproducible table flags PIN 013-705-204-00 and patent 0122-257 as an exact PLSS-subdivision overlap candidate. It is a derived research lead, not independent title evidence and not proof of continuity between the 1859 patent and the current parcel.
    county · charlevoix · parcels_arcgis · 2026-08-01 · island_parcel_glo_candidates

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Great Blue Heron Park”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/great-blue-heron-park/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township Board, approved regular-meeting minutes, February 14, 2024. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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