Wilderness Court

Road

Intersects

Garden Island View Court · Island Woods Road · Wandering Woods Court · Woodridge Court

Coordinates

45.7511° N, 85.5551° WGoogle Maps: Wilderness CourtDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Wilderness Court 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 701 m. It meets four 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:

• Ryan Smith Construction — Ryan Smith Construction was a business name recorded at 38299 Wilderness Court on Beaver Island in a 2003 assumed-name notice. A 2016 notice records KS Construction at the same address under Kyle Smith, while a 2009 notice also uses the name Ryan Smith Construction Cottage Rentals. These filings establish the address and reported names, but not the legal…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 15 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