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Midland County, Michigan

Use this county page to find the right government office or narrow down to a city or township. The service directory covers common county jobs; the local pages add property-tax context, school-district rate ranges, nearby places, and Porch Notes tied to each community.

County snapshot

Cities

2

Townships

16

School districts

10

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 25.6449 mills to 43.5792 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 43.2433 mills to 61.5792 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 Midland 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

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Porch Notes

Local notes from Midland County

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

Midland County · History and culture

The architect's house that sits in its own pond

Alden B. Dow built his Midland home and studio in the 1930s with a studio room sunk into the water; it is now a National Historic Landmark you can tour.

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Midland County · History and culture

Midland's Tudor courthouse has glass-bright murals

Built in 1924-25 and occupied in 1926, Midland County's Tudor Revival courthouse carries Paul Honoré murals made with a Dow-developed stucco mixed with ground glass.

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Midland County · Outdoors

Thirty paved miles from downtown Midland to Clare, on an old rail bed

The Pere Marquette Rail-Trail runs 30 paved miles west from Midland's Farmers Market through Sanford and Coleman to Clare, laid on an abandoned railroad corridor.

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Midland County · Outdoors

A hill of 3,000 dahlias that started with a Mother's Day gift

Dahlia Hill is a terraced Midland garden where volunteers plant about 3,000 dahlias each spring, grown from one art teacher's accidental obsession.

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Midland County · History and culture

A whole pioneer village, saved one building at a time

Sanford's history museum is a campus of eight rescued 1800s buildings on the Tittabawassee River, born from a one-summer centennial exhibit that nobody wanted to take down.

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Midland County · History and culture

Coleman, named for the man who drew it on a map

A land buyer named Seymour Coleman platted the village in 1868, and the Pere Marquette railroad and a wall of sawmills did the rest.

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