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Isabella County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

2

Townships

16

School districts

17

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.5094 mills to 45.9134 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 41.1438 mills to 63.9134 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 Isabella 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 Isabella County

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Isabella County · History and culture

The Indian boarding school at the edge of Mount Pleasant

From 1893 to 1934 the federal government ran a boarding school in Mount Pleasant that took Native children from across Michigan and beyond; the surviving buildings now belong to the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.

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Isabella County · Outdoors

Deerfield Nature Park's four river bridges

This Isabella County park has four Chippewa River crossings: Fisher Annex Covered Bridge, Lewis Pontiac Bridge, and two swinging bridges.

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Isabella County · History and culture

How six townships became the Isabella Reservation

Treaties signed in 1855 and 1864 set aside six Isabella County townships as a homeland for the Saginaw Chippewa, the reservation that still defines much of the county today.

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Isabella County · History and culture

The lumberman who founded Mount Pleasant — but kept the pine

Timber baron David Ward platted Mount Pleasant in 1860 and gave Isabella County its five-acre courthouse square — while shrewdly reserving every pine tree on the land for himself.

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Isabella County · History and culture

Beal City: a German Catholic colony west of Mount Pleasant

Beal City grew from a lumber camp into a tight-knit German Catholic farming community, anchored for 150 years by the parish now called St. Joseph the Worker.

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Isabella County · Outdoors

Coldwater Lake Family Park: an all-sports lake near Weidman

Isabella County's Coldwater Lake Family Park sits on an all-sports lake near Weidman, with a sandy beach, nearly 100 campsites, rustic cabins, and accessible launches and walkways.

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