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Antrim County, Michigan

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Townships

15

School districts

11

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 19.7706 mills to 39.1766 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 37.7706 mills to 56.9209 mills.

Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Data used: 2025 Michigan Treasury Total Property Tax Rates. Last reviewed July 12, 2026.

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Official Antrim County website

County websites are checked against the State of Michigan county website directory . State and court finders are used where one office or district can serve more than one county. Directory reviewed July 12, 2026. Office roles were checked against Michigan Vital Records, Michigan Treasury taxpayer resources, and State Tax Commission guidance.

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Porch Notes

Local notes from Antrim County

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Antrim County · History and culture

Mancelona's Bass Festival has lasted seven decades

The northern Michigan town marked its 70th annual Bass Festival in 2026, with a parade, carnival, car show, market, and a long weekend of community events.

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Antrim County · History and culture

From a Bellaire hardware store to a brewery that fills Elk Rapids

Joe Short opened Short's Brewing in an old Bellaire hardware store in 2004, then outgrew it and moved the brewing into an Elk Rapids factory making tens of thousands of barrels a year.

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Antrim County · History and culture

How tiny Ellsworth became a fine-dining destination

Wes Westhoven turned a 1972 Ellsworth restaurant into a French-country pioneer with a legendary wine cellar, putting a village of a few hundred people on national gourmet maps.

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Antrim County · History and culture

Mancelona's iron town, and the tar lake it left behind

From 1882 to 1945 the Antrim Iron Company smelted iron with hardwood charcoal south of Mancelona — and dumped its waste in a pond that became a federal Superfund site.

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Antrim County · History and culture

The Alden depot that six railroad men saved on their days off

Built in 1907 as the Pere Marquette's finest station north of Grand Rapids, Alden's lakeside depot survived its empty years as a railroaders' vacation clubhouse before becoming a township museum.

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Antrim County · Outdoors

The river you can only walk to on a boardwalk

When a developer eyed a marshy stretch of the Chain of Lakes in 1969, neighbors banded together and built the Grass River Natural Area — 1,500 acres of cedar swamp laced with boardwalk.

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