Summary

A 1974 Beaver Beacon classified advertisement offered a 40-acre tract on Fox Lake Road. The ad described it as the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 28 in Peaine Township and gave Philip L. Burke in St. James as the contact. The May issue repeated the offer.

This is a source-qualified listing record. It does not establish a completed sale, title, exact road frontage, parcel geometry, or later use of the tract.

Open questions

Which current parcel corresponds to the quarter-quarter description?
Was the tract sold, subdivided, or retained under another name?
Can a deed or county parcel layer confirm its relationship to Fox Lake 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.

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Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 1974, “Classified Advertising.”
Offers 40 acres on Fox Lake Road, described as the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 28 in Peaine Township, through Philip L. Burke. It is an advertisement, not evidence of a completed sale, title, exact road frontage, or parcel geometry.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-04_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, April 1974, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-04_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, May 1974, “Classified Advertising.”
Repeats the 40-acre Fox Lake Road listing and gives a St. James contact for Philip L. Burke. It does not add a deed, legal description beyond the quarter-quarter reference, or confirmation of sale.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1974-05_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, May–June 1974, held combined issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page combined May–June issue scan is paired with the OCR source stored under the archive 1974-05 key and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1974-05_Beaver-Beacon
Public Charlevoix County parcel FeatureServer snapshot, retrieved 2026-08-06.
The snapshot contains parcel 012-128-003-00, a 40.1-acre NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 28, with centroid approximately -85.555265, 45.6577781. This is the strongest current parcel match to the listing’s legal quarter-quarter description, but its present site-road label is Middie Perron’s Trail rather than Fox Lake Road; the point is therefore an approximate research locator, not proof of identity, historical frontage, title, or legal boundary.
county · charlevoix · parcels_arcgis · 2026-08-01 · island_parcel_attributes

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fox Lake Road 40-acre tract”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/fox-lake-road-40-acre-tract-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1974, “Classified Advertising.” (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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