# Backus Beach

Backus Beach is a populated place in [Hawes Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cda-77c8-acc6-e287b7a365df), [Alcona County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-59b8-7700-8c5c-af7c3d92657c), [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa), in the [Lower South Branch Thunder Bay River (HUC10 0407000605)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1e36-7028-a349-27b491f25a30) watershed.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae>

Within: [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) › [Alcona County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-59b8-7700-8c5c-af7c3d92657c) › [Hawes Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cda-77c8-acc6-e287b7a365df)

Type: [geo:Feature](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature), [schema:Place](https://schema.org/Place)

Location: 44.76001, -83.54609 (box -83.54609, 44.76001, -83.54609, 44.76001; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [gnis 620410](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f084-74e8-bb69-d61ee3a4fadc)
- `dcterms:type`: [populated place](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisPopulatedPlace)
- `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`: [point of Backus Beach](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f7d2-749a-b459-0aa1052c2b55)
- `geo:hasGeometry`: [point of Backus Beach](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f7d2-749a-b459-0aa1052c2b55)
- **in watershed** (`bcgeo:inWatershed`): [Lower South Branch Thunder Bay River (HUC10 0407000605)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1e36-7028-a349-27b491f25a30)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`:
  - [evidence from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames\_MI\_Text.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656d395daaec)
  - [evidence from https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-17f5-7054-8bad-4d7746ef8ab1)
- `schema:containedInPlace`:
  - [Alcona County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-59b8-7700-8c5c-af7c3d92657c)
  - [Hawes Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cda-77c8-acc6-e287b7a365df)
- `skos:prefLabel`: Backus Beach

## Elsewhere

- [Wikidata Q122545900](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122545900) (proposed match (exactMatch))
- [USGS GNIS 620410](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/620410) (gnis)
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=44.76001&mlon=-83.54609#map=14/44.76001/-83.54609) (44.76001, -83.54609)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44.76001,-83.54609)
- [Source](https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames_MI_Text.zip) (prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com)
- [Source](https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer) (hydro.nationalmap.gov)

## Pointing here

- Mappings (1; `owl:annotatedSource`):
  - [exactMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q122545900 (proposed)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de51-dc45-7562-8728-54dac9d8e016)

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Also as: [Turtle](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae.ttl), [JSON-LD](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae.jsonld), [N-Triples](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae.nt), [HTML](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae)
Cite as: Backus Beach. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc12, 2026-09-27. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f083-7133-a4c4-656e22ddd2ae
Release 0.1.0-rc12, graph hash a20f66b983549f220c6f061b7e40233771a06aa47a0c0aede95a2a57ee2e9553.