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Ontonagon County, Michigan

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Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 29.1653 mills to 45.7788 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 47.1653 mills to 63.7788 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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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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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

Bond Falls: six boardwalk views near Paulding

Michigan DNR's Bond Falls site pairs a roughly 50-foot total drop with an accessible boardwalk and six viewing spots. Vehicle access is seasonal; the trail remains open year-round.

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Ontonagon County · History and culture

How Ontonagon got its name -- and the copper boulder behind it

Ontonagon is an Ojibwe name, carried by the river before the county. And on that river once sat the Ontonagon Boulder -- a sacred 3,700-pound chunk of pure copper, known to the Ojibwe for centuries, now in the Smithsonian.

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Ontonagon County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Ontonagon?

There's no city income tax in Ontonagon County -- and there couldn't easily be one, since the county's only incorporated community is the Village of Ontonagon. The nearest income tax is Grayling, well over two hundred miles away.

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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

Lake Gogebic's quieter, northern half

The Upper Peninsula's biggest inland lake, Lake Gogebic, reaches up into southwestern Ontonagon County -- where the village of Bergland sits on its northern shore, an hour and a time zone away from the lake's southern end.

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Ontonagon County · History and culture

Old Victoria, the copper village frozen in time

Near Rockland, a cluster of hand-hewn log cabins still stands where copper miners and their families lived a century ago -- one of the oldest log villages remaining on its original site in America, preserved by volunteers.

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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

The Porcupine Mountains, Michigan's biggest wild park

The Porkies are Michigan's largest state park: roughly 60,000 acres with about 35,000 acres of primary forest, wild rivers, trails, and Lake Superior shoreline.

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