- Intersects
- West Side Drive
- Coordinates
- 45.5799° N, 85.5969° WGoogle Maps: Little Iron Orebay RoadDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Little Iron Orebay 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 834 m. A 1989 Peaine meeting report uses the historical
name “Iron Ore Bay Road” for a road between Iron Ore Creek and West Side Drive;
that variant is preserved here without claiming a surveyed identity match.
The road meets one other named road, recorded 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:
- Parcel 15 of the Iron Ore Bay Company Survey — Parcel 15 of the Iron Ore Bay Company Survey is a source-qualified land tract associated with Little Iron Orebay Road on Beaver Island. A property profile describes a roughly 465,656-square-foot tract facing south toward Lake Michigan and says access to a building site would be from Little Iron Orebay Road, with a possible alternative driveway from West Side…
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.
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 'Little Iron Orebay Road'; grouped OSM way ids: 17757389. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
- A Peaine resolution reported in the newspaper calls for preserving, maintaining, and improving “Iron Ore Bay Road” between Iron Ore Creek and West Side Drive as a Natural Beauty Road. The source does not supply a surveyed centerline or explicitly equate that historical name with the current mapped “Little Iron Orebay Road”; the variant is retained as a research bridge. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1989-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-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 · 1989-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Little Iron Orebay Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/little-iron-orebay-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0). (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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