Frankie Lane

Road

Intersects

Back Highway · Main Street

Coordinates

45.7482° N, 85.5181° WGoogle Maps: Frankie LaneDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Frankie Lane 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 81 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.

Documented associations

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

• Frankie Lane and the Boat Company parking lot are realigned in the Main Street project, 2001 — At its July 5, 2001 meeting, the St. James Township Board approved a change order for realignment of Frankie Lane and the Boat Company parking lot as part of the Main Street Improvement Project, after rescinding an earlier change order. The minutes establish the township approval and project context, but not the final alignment, cost, engineering record…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 5 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