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Menominee 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 21.8652 mills to 43.9792 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 39.8652 mills to 61.9792 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 Menominee 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 Menominee County

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

Menominee County · Outdoors

Menominee's red lighthouse, lit on New Year's Day 1877

A small octagonal cast-iron tower has marked the mouth of the Menominee River since 1877; the city took it over from the Coast Guard in 2008 and keeps the red beacon shining.

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Menominee County · Outdoors

Pemene Falls, the hard-to-find rapids on the Menominee River

Down a gravel road in Faithorn Township, the Menominee River drops through Pemene Falls — one of three units in a 7,652-acre state recreation area Michigan and Wisconsin manage together.

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Menominee County · History and culture

Powers began as a Menominee Range railroad junction

Powers grew where the Chicago & North Western main line met the branch toward the Menominee iron range.

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Menominee County · Outdoors

Shakey Lakes: a county park wrapped around four lakes

Menominee County runs a 240-acre park among four lakes near Stephenson, with a sand beach on Resort Lake, well over a hundred campsites, and miles of trails through the woods.

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Menominee County · Outdoors

The brewer who gave Menominee a 50-acre park on Green Bay

John Henes ran a brewery and patented a bottling machine used across the beer industry, then in 1907 handed the city 50 wooded acres on the Green Bay shore for a public park.

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Menominee County · History and culture

The Menominee library a lumberman built to look like a French chateau

Augustus Spies made his fortune in white pine, then gave Menominee a Beaux-Arts library by the firm that designed Carnegie libraries across the Midwest.

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