- Intersects
- Beaver Lodge Drive · Kenwabakisie Lane
- Coordinates
- 45.7485° N, 85.5226° WGoogle Maps: McDonough AvenueDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
McDonough Avenue 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 421
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:
- Elwood “Van” VanAntwerp — Elwood “Van” VanAntwerp was profiled in May 2004 as a retired master finish carpenter who had lived on Beaver Island for 23 years after moving there in 1981. The profile says he built custom cabinets and converted the former Coast Guard Building into a McDonough Avenue home; it reports his death during the night of April 16, 2004. The source supports the…
Research status
The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 1 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 'McDonough Avenue'; grouped OSM way ids: 17756602. 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, “McDonough Avenue”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/mcdonough-avenue/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..
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