diff --git a/app/indexers/concerns/hyrax/location_indexer.rb b/app/indexers/concerns/hyrax/location_indexer.rb
index 7f6fbcf55d..0d97e3f31a 100644
--- a/app/indexers/concerns/hyrax/location_indexer.rb
+++ b/app/indexers/concerns/hyrax/location_indexer.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def to_solr
 
     def based_near_label_lookup(locations)
       locations.map do |loc|
-        location_service.full_label(loc)
+        location_service.full_label(loc.to_s)
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/app/services/hyrax/location_service.rb b/app/services/hyrax/location_service.rb
index 1fe9803232..c0efa08a49 100644
--- a/app/services/hyrax/location_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/hyrax/location_service.rb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def full_label(uri)
 
     def extract_id(obj)
       uri = case obj
-            when String
+            when String, Valkyrie::ID
               URI(obj)
             when URI
               obj