Kenwabakisie Lane

Road

Intersects

Back Highway · McDonough Avenue · Pine Avenue

Coordinates

45.7491° N, 85.5203° WGoogle Maps: Kenwabakisie LaneDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Kenwabakisie 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 229 m. It meets three 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:

• Beaver Island Christian Church — The Beaver Island Christian Church is a congregation on Beaver Island, Michigan, founded at an Easter Sunday service in 1963. Beaver Beacon coverage from 1966 through at least 2006 calls it non-denominational; the Chamber of Commerce now calls it multi-denominational. Early services met in a motel room, the Medical Center’s…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 0 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