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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.

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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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Chippewa County · Outdoors

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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Chippewa County · History and culture

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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Chippewa County · Outdoors

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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Chippewa County · History and culture

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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Chippewa County · History and culture

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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