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Island Woods Road

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Locator map: Island Woods Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeRoad
Coordinates45.7538° N, 85.5587° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Island Woods Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Road
Intersects
Font Lake Road · Garden Island View Court · Indian Woods Road · Island Woods Road North · Lake Michigan Court · Sqaw Island Court · Trout Island Court · Whiskey Island Court · Wild Woods Court · Wilderness Court
Coordinates
45.7538° N, 85.5587° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationtoponymy
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Island Woods 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 2.8 km. It meets ten 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.

Documented associations

These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:

  • Fred and Gay Cox property on Island Woods Road — In May 1974, the Beaver Beacon advertised Fred and Gay Cox’s furnished place on Island Woods Road near Font Lake. The listing described a large screened porch, insulated walls and ceilings, double glass, and wall heaters in every room, with terms available through Bev Martin on Leonard Lane after June 10. The map point is the current Island Woods Road…

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

  1. Current mapped road name 'Island Woods Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17755692. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
    osm · roads

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Island Woods Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/island-woods-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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