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Lake Drive

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Locator map: Lake Drive highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeRoad
Coordinates45.7504° N, 85.5046° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Lake Drive highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Road
Intersects
Beaver Drive · Lookout Drive · Maple Street · Michigan Avenue
Coordinates
45.7504° N, 85.5046° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationtoponymy
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Lake Drive 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 791 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:

  • Charlevoix County review of Adrian-Rogers rezoning request, 2024 — On May 9, 2024, the Charlevoix County Planning Commission reviewed a proposal to rezone the 2.38-acre St. James Township parcel identified as 013-223-001-90, at 25460 Lake Drive, from Single Family Residential (R-1) to Harbor (H). The County Planning Department’s May 30 packet records a unanimous motion not to support that proposed district change.

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 229 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

  1. Current mapped road name 'Lake Drive'; grouped OSM way ids: 17756717. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
    osm · roads
  2. A classified notice located the former Gordon’s auto clinic at 25578 Lake Drive in town, around the corner from the grocery store. This is a community place reference, not an independent business history, parcel record, or proof of the clinic’s operating dates.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016714

Added 2 August 2026 · revised 8 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Lake Drive”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/lake-drive/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0). (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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

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