County
Chippewa County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Chippewa 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
16
Villages
0
School districts
9
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 22.1126 mills to 43.9009 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 40.1126 mills to 61.9009 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Chippewa County
City
Sault Sainte Marie
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Bay Mills Township
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Bruce Township
2 school districts available.
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Chippewa Township
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Dafter Township
3 school districts available.
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Detour Township
2 school districts available.
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Drummond Township
1 school district available.
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Hulbert Township
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Kinross Township
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Pickford Township
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Raber Township
3 school districts available.
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Rudyard Township
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Soo Township
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Sugar Island Township
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Superior Township
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Trout Lake Township
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Whitefish Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Chippewa County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Chippewa County · Outdoors
Crisp Point: The Light That Was Nearly Lost to the Lake
A lonely tower on Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast that nearly slid into the lake — saved by stubborn volunteers and relit in 2013.
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Drummond Island: The Last British Holdout
The second-largest freshwater island in the U.S., a last British holdout until 1828, and home to one of the world's rare alvar grasslands.
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Manoomin — Wild Rice
Michigan's newest symbol is one of its oldest foods: in 2023 it became the first state to name an official native grain — manoomin, the wild rice at the heart of Anishinaabe history.
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Michigan Has a Waterfall the Color of Root Beer
Deep in the Upper Peninsula, the Tahquamenon River plunges over a 50-foot ledge in a froth of root-beer-colored foam — colored by tannins, not anything unclean.
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Michigan's Oldest City Is Older Than the United States
Sault Ste. Marie, founded by Father Marquette in 1668, is Michigan's oldest city — 108 years older than the United States.
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Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx Beneath the Waves
Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx of Anishinaabe tradition, is the underwater panther said to guard the copper of Lake Superior — the oldest "something in the water" story the Great Lakes have.
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