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Missaukee County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

2

Townships

15

School districts

8

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 19.8899 mills to 37.7126 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 37.6935 mills to 55.7126 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 Missaukee 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 Missaukee County

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Missaukee County · History and culture

The Aetna Earthworks: two old rings on a gravel ridge

A pair of circular earthen enclosures on a glacial ridge in Aetna Township, built around 1200 AD and now one of Missaukee County's two National Register sites.

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Missaukee County · History and culture

Ebels: the general store that ate a town's main street

Ebels General Store in tiny Falmouth has run since 1920, growing from a horse-drawn delivery wagon into a destination meat market and USDA processing plant.

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Missaukee County · History and culture

Lake City and the Greatest Fourth in the North

Lake City packs four days of parades, contests, and lakeside fireworks into its Independence Day celebration, the Greatest Fourth in the North.

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Missaukee County · Outdoors

Long Lake: eleven rustic sites down a string of back roads

Long Lake State Forest Campground near Lake City is a small, rustic, first-come state campground with eleven sites, a hand pump, and good fishing on a quiet lake.

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Missaukee County · History and culture

The Missaukee courthouse that burned in February 1944

On February 18, 1944, fire destroyed Lake City's three-story 1883 courthouse, one chapter in the community's long history of fires and rebuilding.

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Missaukee County · History and culture

Moorestown: a church at one end, a schoolhouse at the other

Moorestown in Norwich Township was a Clam River lumber village founded in 1881; today an old church and the Hunt Schoolhouse bookend a main street that mostly went away.

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