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Clinton County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

6

Townships

16

School districts

26

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.839 mills to 53.9054 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 23.839 mills to 71.3532 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.

Use this carefully: Michigan Porch uses the statewide published rates as a planning aid. The local assessor or treasurer controls parcel-specific values, due dates, and special assessments.

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Official Clinton 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.

Local pages

Places in Clinton County

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Dewitt

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East Lansing

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Grand Ledge

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Lansing

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Ovid

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St Johns

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Bath Township

4 school districts available.

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Bengal Township

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Bingham Township

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Dallas Township

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Dewitt Township

6 school districts available.

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Duplain Township

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Eagle Township

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Essex Township

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Greenbush Township

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Lebanon Township

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Olive Township

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Ovid Township

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Riley Township

6 school districts available.

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Victor Township

5 school districts available.

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Watertown Township

10 school districts available.

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Westphalia Township

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Porch Notes

Local notes from Clinton County

Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.

Clinton County · Outdoors

A waste-facility agreement helped build Granger Meadows

DeWitt Township's 76-acre Granger Meadows Park grew from a host-community agreement and was donated with its improvements in 2005.

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Clinton County · History and culture

DeWitt's river was named 'see yourself'

The Looking Glass River that runs through DeWitt got its English name from the Ojibwe word Wabwaysin — 'see yourself' — for water clear enough to mirror the trees and your own face.

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Clinton County · History and culture

How Fowler's church got a name nobody could fight over

When Fowler's German and Irish Catholics each wanted their own national saint on the church, the parish settled the argument in 1881 by naming it for the Holy Trinity instead.

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Clinton County · History and culture

How Uncle John's Cider Mill got its name

The St. Johns cider mill on US-127 has pressed cider since the 1970s on a Beck family farm, and its name grew out of the question helpers kept asking founder John Beck.

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Clinton County · History and culture

Maple Rapids got rich on pine, not maple

Named for the rapids on the Maple River by George Campau in 1826 — brother of Grand Rapids' founder — this Essex Township village made its real money sawing pine during Michigan's lumber boom.

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Clinton County · History and culture

Ovid, Michigan, is named for a Roman poet — by way of New York

A settler named the Clinton County village of Ovid after his old hometown in New York, which itself borrowed the name of the ancient Roman poet during a classical-naming craze.

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