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Schoolcraft County, Michigan

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County snapshot

Cities

1

Townships

8

School districts

4

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 21.8951 mills to 40.2827 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 39.6761 mills to 58.2827 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 Schoolcraft 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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Schoolcraft County · History and culture

How Schoolcraft County got its name

Schoolcraft County is named for Henry Schoolcraft, the explorer and Indian agent whose famous writings on the Ojibwe rested largely on the knowledge of his Ojibwe wife, the writer Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.

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Schoolcraft County · Outdoors

Indian Lake, the UP's big friendly lake

Just west of Manistique spreads Indian Lake -- the fourth-largest inland lake in the Upper Peninsula, big, shallow, and warm, with a classic state park on its shores.

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Schoolcraft County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Manistique?

Manistique charges no city income tax -- and no community in the entire Upper Peninsula does. The nearest one is Grayling, well over a hundred miles away.

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Schoolcraft County · History and culture

Manistique's lumber days, and the bridge that floats

Manistique boomed on white pine -- a port town reachable only by water until 1888 -- and its lumber era left behind a lighthouse, a grand brick water tower, and a bridge that sits below the water beside it.

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Schoolcraft County · History and culture

Seul Choix Point Lighthouse

South of Gulliver, the Seul Choix Point station dates to 1892 and its present light to 1895. The site pairs a working light with a museum and a local ghost story.

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Schoolcraft County · Outdoors

Visiting G'chi-dikibi (Kitch-iti-kipi)

Northwest of Manistique, Michigan's largest natural freshwater spring can be viewed from an accessible, self-propelled raft at Palms Book State Park.

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