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Delta County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

2

Townships

14

School districts

6

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 22.3591 mills to 41.4133 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 40.3591 mills to 59.1495 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 Delta 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 Delta County

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Delta County · History and culture

A lumber baron's widow built Escanaba an arts center

The Bonifas Arts Center in Escanaba lives in a 1938 golden-Kasota-stone hall that Catherine Bonifas built in memory of her timber-baron husband; it became a regional arts hub in 1974.

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Delta County · Outdoors

Days River Pathway: nine miles of loops above the river

Northwest of Gladstone, the Days River Pathway runs nine miles of stacked loops through pine and cedar ridges above the Days River, groomed for cross-country skiing in winter.

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Delta County · History and culture

How Escanaba got its own movie

Jeff Daniels set his deer-camp comedy 'Escanaba in da Moonlight' here, then filmed it in town in 2001 after raising the money from Michigan investors when Hollywood passed.

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Delta County · Money and taxes

In Escanaba, your power bill comes from the city

Escanaba runs its own electric utility instead of buying from Consumers or DTE — the city owns the wires and serves about 6,000 customers, and its residential rate has run well below the state average.

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Delta County · History and culture

Nahma: the whole town that went up for sale

Nahma was a lumber company town built around the Bay de Noquet mill in 1881; when the saws stopped in 1951 the company put the entire town up for sale.

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Delta County · Outdoors

The 40-mile trail that follows an old canoe portage

Starting east of Rapid River, the Bay de Noc–Grand Island Trail traces an ancient Chippewa portage route used to carry canoes between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

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