- Intersects
- East Side Drive · Fox Lake Road · King's Highway
- Coordinates
- 45.6596° N, 85.5286° WGoogle Maps: Hannigan's RoadDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
- Media
- Beaver Island History Map, 1978 revision · General highway map of Charlevoix County, 1965
Summary
Hannigan’s Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map.
The three held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry
of about 4.7 km. 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.
The 1978 Beaver Island History Map attributes the road name to Tom “Hannigan” Boyle. The road itself is independently attested, and Helen Collar’s notes use the spelling “Hanagan” in land descriptions, but no source inspected in this audit proves that namesake. The explanation remains map-attributed.
Documented associations
These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:
- Michigan DNR parcel record 2041033 — This record represents current Michigan DNR parcel 2041033, with reported area 20.7 acres and division/department Wildlife Division. It is a state parcel-geometry and management record, not a county tax card or deed.
- Beaver Island road committee repair list, 1994 — At the St. James township report dated May 4, 1994, the Beaver Island road committee gave the Road Commission a list of repair needs. The list named Mrs. Redding’s Trail, Barney’s Lake Road, Hannigan Road, and Mike Boyle’s Turnaround, among other island routes, and said an engineer would meet with the committee on May 13. The notice records a repair-planning…
- Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area — Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area is a Michigan Department of Natural Resources public-land designation covering substantial state-managed land in the Beaver Island archipelago, dating from the 1970s. Local reporting places 9,195.5 acres of the Beaver Island portion within the 2024…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 18 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 "Hannigan's Road"; grouped OSM way ids: 1205118563, 1205118566, 17761979. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
- The map attributes the road name to Tom “Hannigan” Boyle. Current mapping and newspapers establish the road name, and Collar uses the variant “Hanagan,” but no independent source inspected proves the proposed namesake.
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Hannigan's Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/hannigan-s-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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