County
Alger County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Alger County. Each local page gives you property-tax context, school-district rate ranges, official-source links, nearby places, and any Porch Notes tied to that community.
County snapshot
Cities
1
Townships
8
Villages
0
School districts
5
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.1007 mills to 40.7956 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 40.7697 mills to 58.7956 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Alger County
City
Munising
1 school district available.
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Township
Au Train Township
3 school districts available.
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Township
Burt Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Grand Island Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Limestone Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Mathias Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Munising Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Onota Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Rock River Township
2 school districts available.
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Alger County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Alger County · Outdoors
America's First National Lakeshore Is in the U.P. — and the Cliffs Are Painted by Minerals
America's first national lakeshore is in the U.P., where Lake Superior cliffs rise 200 feet and minerals paint them in streaks of color.
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Grand Island: A Tycoon's Private Kingdom on Lake Superior
For ninety years, 13,500 acres off Munising were one iron magnate's private kingdom; today it's a wild National Recreation Area.
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Laughing Whitefish Falls
One of the best names in Michigan, and a shape to match: the Laughing Whitefish River fans out about a hundred feet down a stepped limestone wall in a quiet, uncrowded state park.
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Munising, the Waterfall Capital
Munising calls itself the Waterfall Capital of Michigan, and with around seventeen named falls in Alger County — several reachable on a short walk — it has earned the title.
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Sable Falls
At the eastern edge of Pictured Rocks, Sable Falls drops about 75 feet of sandstone to a wild Lake Superior beach — down a staircase of around 168 steps.
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