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Marquette County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

3

Townships

19

School districts

10

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 18.7511 mills to 45.7906 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 36.5392 mills to 63.7906 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 Marquette 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 Marquette County

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Ishpeming

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Marquette

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Negaunee

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Champion Township

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Chocolay Township

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Ely Township

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Ewing Township

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Forsyth Township

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Humboldt Township

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Ishpeming Township

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Marquette Township

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Michigamme Township

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Negaunee Township

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Powell Township

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Republic Township

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Richmond Township

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Sands Township

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Skandia Township

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Tilden Township

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Turin Township

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Wells Township

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West Branch Township

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Porch Notes

Local notes from Marquette County

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

Marquette County · History and culture

The Egyptian obelisks over an Ishpeming iron mine

The Cliffs Shaft Mine needed working headframes in 1919. Because the site was so visible, the company made its two concrete towers worth looking at too.

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Marquette County · History and culture

Why Marquette's harbor light is painted red

The red brick lighthouse on the point in Marquette dates to 1866, still guides ore freighters into the harbor, and is the oldest significant building in the city.

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Marquette County · Outdoors

The day nine billion gallons came down the Dead River

In May 2003 a spillway at Silver Lake Dam failed and emptied the reservoir down the Dead River, taking out a second dam, nine bridges, and a power plant — without killing anyone.

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Marquette County · History and culture

Northern Michigan University started with 32 students and six teachers

Northern Michigan University opened in Marquette in 1899 as a teacher-training school — 32 students, six faculty, 22 acres — and grew into the largest university in the Upper Peninsula.

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Marquette County · Outdoors

Republic moved homes so its open-pit mine could grow

When Republic's open-pit mine expanded in the 1950s, about one-fourth of the community's families and homes moved south. A free public overlook now helps tell that story.

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Marquette County · Outdoors

The scrap-metal sculpture park a township tried to ban

Lakenenland, on M-28 east of Marquette, is 37 acres of welded scrap-iron sculptures by Tom Lakenen — free, open around the clock, and born when officials called the art illegal yard signs.

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