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McCauley's Point Road

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Locator map: McCauley's Point Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeRoad
Coordinates45.7208° N, 85.5679° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: McCauley's Point Road 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
Eagle Hill Road
Coordinates
45.7208° N, 85.5679° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationtoponymy
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

McCauley’s Point Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. The two held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry of about 1.1 km. It 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.

Open questions

  • Is the road named for Owen F. McCauley, documented elsewhere as the namesake of the adjacent McCauley Point, or for a different member of the McCauley family? No source held here ties the road’s name to a person.
  • Does this road correspond to the access path at McCauley’s Point that a local account (held in the Kuebler Trail record) describes leading to Kuebler Trail’s north end, or is that a separate, unmapped footpath?

If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.

Documented associations

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

  • Kuebler Trail — Kuebler Trail is a named, unpaved recreational trail in the south-central Beaver Island woods. A January 1971 Beaver Beacon item identifies the old railroad right-of-way through Paradise Valley that Karl Kuebler had brushed out in fall 1970 and thanks him for “Kuebler Trail.” Local accounts connect its northern end with McCauley’s Point and its drivable…

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

  1. Current mapped road name "McCauley's Point Road"; grouped OSM way ids: 17759646, 17759653. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
    osm · roads

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “McCauley's Point Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/mccauley-s-point-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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