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Ogemaw County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

2

Townships

14

School districts

3

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 20.8997 mills to 41.5336 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 38.8997 mills to 58.7211 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 Ogemaw 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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Local notes from Ogemaw County

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Ogemaw County · Outdoors

Ambrose Lake: a hand-pump well and 25 sites in the state forest

Eleven miles north of West Branch, Ambrose Lake State Forest Campground offers 25 rustic sites on a quiet lake, with vault toilets, a hand-pumped well, and trails close by.

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Ogemaw County · Outdoors

Ogemaw Hills Pathway: hiking a glacier's leftovers

The 15-mile Ogemaw Hills Pathway north of West Branch winds over the West Branch Moraine, a ridge of hills bulldozed up by the Saginaw Lobe of the last ice sheet.

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Ogemaw County · History and culture

Ogemaw Springs: the town that lost the county seat by one vote

Ogemaw Springs was an early lumber settlement and nearly the county seat, losing to West Branch by one vote. Its old spring still flows along Maes Road.

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Ogemaw County · History and culture

Ogemaw: a county named for a chief who spoke up to Lewis Cass

Ogemaw County takes its name from the Anishinaabe word for chief, by way of Ogemaw-ge-gato, a Chippewa orator who argued against ceding Michigan land to territorial governor Lewis Cass.

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Ogemaw County · History and culture

The hour that burned down Rose City

On an April morning in 1910, fire tore through Rose City's business district in under an hour and destroyed thirty buildings. Many businesses never rebuilt.

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Ogemaw County · Cars and driving

West Branch's smiley-face water tower, grinning at I-75

A bright yellow smiley face painted on the West Branch water tower has greeted I-75 drivers for decades and earned the town its motto, the City with a Smile.

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