County
Gogebic County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Gogebic 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
3
Townships
6
Villages
0
School districts
4
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 26.8665 mills to 51.4251 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 44.6815 mills to 69.2559 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Gogebic County
City
Bessemer
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City
Ironwood
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City
Wakefield
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Township
Bessemer Township
2 school districts available.
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Township
Erwin Township
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Township
Ironwood Township
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Township
Marenisco Township
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Wakefield Township
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Watersmeet Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Gogebic County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Gogebic County · Outdoors
Bond Falls
Many U.P. folks call Bond Falls the prettiest waterfall in Michigan after Tahquamenon — a hundred-foot-wide staircase of cascades you can stand right in the middle of.
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The Black River Waterfalls
The Black River near Bessemer gives you five waterfalls in a row — Great Conglomerate, Potawatomi, Gorge, Sandstone, and Rainbow — strung along one of the great waterfall walks in the Midwest.
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The Ghost Light That Has Glowed in the U.P. Woods for 60 Years
The Paulding Light has drawn ghost-hunters to a U.P. forest road since 1966 — and a 2010 Michigan Tech study traced it to distant headlights bent by a temperature inversion.
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The Hand-Pie With a Crust You Weren't Supposed to Eat
The U.P.'s beloved pasty came over with Cornish miners — and the famous story about its thick crust being a disposable handle is half legend.
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The Strange, True Story of How Michigan Accidentally Gave Wisconsin a Chunk of the U.P.
After Michigan won the U.P., surveyors followed the wrong fork of the Montreal River and handed a chunk back to Wisconsin — and in 1926 the Supreme Court let the mistake stand.
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Why Do Some Parts of the U.P. Have a Different Time Than the Rest of Michigan?
Most of Michigan runs on Eastern Time, but four counties in the western U.P. that border Wisconsin — Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee — sit on Central Time.
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