- Intersects
- Barney's Lake Road South · McCauley's Point Road
- Coordinates
- 45.7208° N, 85.5614° WGoogle Maps: Eagle Hill RoadDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Eagle Hill 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 887
m. It meets two 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.
Open questions
- What feature or person gave Eagle Hill Road its name — is there a documented “Eagle Hill” landform, and where does it sit relative to the road?
- The 2002 real-estate listing places the Kuebler Trail crossing a parcel’s interior near this road — does that crossing correspond to a specific, still-locatable point along Eagle Hill Road today?
- Is Eagle Hill Road itself publicly maintained, like the county roads it connects, or a private access road — the 2002 listing describes a separate “private drive” connecting to it, leaving the road’s own status unstated?
If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.
Documented associations
These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:
- Buddy's Trail — Buddy’s Trail is not a maintained hiking trail. It functions as a private or lightly-used access road that the joint township planning commission has twice identified, four years apart, as the fallback route when South End Road cannot be used — most concretely during the emergency conditions the commission discussed in January…
- McCauley’s Point 4.6-acre parcel — In July 2002, Ed Wojan Realty advertised a 4.6-acre West Side parcel south of McCauley’s Point with 200.27 feet of sandy beach frontage. The listing described a high building site, critical-dune setting, and access by a private drive connecting to Eagle Hill Road off Barney’s Lake Road. It also said the Kuebler Trail crossed the interior and gave an asking…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 21 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 'Eagle Hill Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17758205. 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, “Eagle Hill Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/eagle-hill-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.