Pat's Road

Road

Intersects

East Side Drive · South Arm Road

Coordinates

45.5846° N, 85.5378° WGoogle Maps: Pat's RoadDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Pat’s 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 582 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:

• Cable Bay — Cable Bay is a named bay near Beaver Island’s south end, GNIS feature 622418 at 45.586114° N, 85.527857° W, about 0.32 km east of Lake Geneserath. GNIS’s own T121 history note says the bay was named for John Cable, who kept a dock and store nearby in the 1840s and 1850s; a separately held October 1965 newspaper retrospective instead…
• Lake Geneserath — Lake Geneserath is the largest inland lake on Beaver Island, lying near the head (northern part) of the island. Its name is a Strang-era biblical toponym — for the Sea of Gennesaret, i.e. the Sea of Galilee — one of several such names James Jesse Strang’s Latter Day Saint settlers gave to features on the island between 1848 and 1856. A 1912…

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