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Dickinson County, Michigan

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Cities

3

Townships

7

School districts

4

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.8083 mills to 44.2364 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 41.8083 mills to 62.0407 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 Dickinson 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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Dickinson County · History and culture

How Dickinson County got its name

Organized on May 21, 1891, Dickinson is Michigan's youngest county. Its name honors Donald M. Dickinson, a Detroit attorney who had served as U.S. Postmaster General.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

How Norway, Michigan got its name

Norway grew up on the Menominee Iron Range in the 1870s -- and its name has two tellings, one about Norwegian settlers and one about a great stand of Norway pine.

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Dickinson County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Iron Mountain?

Iron Mountain charges no city income tax -- neither do Kingsford or Norway, and neither does anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula. The nearest one is Grayling, well over a hundred miles away.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

Kingsford: the town Ford built, the charcoal on your grill

Kingsford had about forty residents in 1920. Then Henry Ford built a wood empire here -- and the briquettes his plant pressed from sawmill waste became the Kingsford charcoal on grills across America.

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Dickinson County · Outdoors

Piers Gorge, the U.P.'s wildest water

South of Norway, the Menominee River squeezes through Piers Gorge in a run of roaring rapids -- some of the fastest water in Michigan or Wisconsin, and a genuine whitewater-rafting destination.

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Dickinson County · Outdoors

Pine Mountain has sent ski jumpers flying since 1939

Construction began in 1937, the first competition came in 1939, and Pine Mountain now hosts FIS Continental Cup meets. FIS reported Clemens Aigner's 144-meter jump as a new hill record in 2020.

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