- Intersects
- Dear Hollow Court · Garden Island View Court · Tamarack Trail · White Cedar Trail
- Coordinates
- 45.7516° N, 85.5535° WGoogle Maps: Tamarack Trail CourtDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationtoponymy
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
Tamarack Trail Court 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 108 m. It meets four other named roads, listed under intersects_road.
Despite the name, this is a short platted connector in the Port St. James
subdivision rather than a recreational trail: it links Tamarack Trail
to two residential courts, and it is not tagged with the trails concept for
that reason (see Trails and trail-making).
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.
Access and ownership
No source held here documents who platted Tamarack Trail Court or dedicated the right-of-way. Unlike its parent road Tamarack Trail and White Cedar Trail, the Charlevoix County parcel snapshot carries no lots addressed to “Tamarack Trail Court” or an equivalent abbreviation, so the county-record evidence available for the longer Port St. James “Trail” streets is not available here — this short connector may simply have no lots fronting it directly. Ownership and public-versus-private status are not established beyond the general Port St. James subdivision association described above.
Open questions
- When was Tamarack Trail Court’s plat recorded within Port St. James, and by whom? No plat record is held here.
- Does the Charlevoix County Road Commission’s road log include Tamarack Trail Court at all — as it does for its parent White Cedar Trail — or is it maintained solely as a private connector?
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:
- Port of St. James subdivision — The Port of St. James subdivision is a late-1960s summer residential development on Beaver Island. The Port of St. James Association describes more than 1,000 properties, shared beaches and recreation facilities, and protective covenants. The dated county parcel snapshot provides a useful road-level bridge: its Port-of-St.-James plat labels co-occur with…
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 'Tamarack Trail Court'; grouped OSM way ids: 17753177. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.osm · roads
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 16 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Tamarack Trail Court”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/tamarack-trail-court/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..
Last revised 2026-08-16. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
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