County
Alger County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Alger County. Each local page gives you property-tax context, school-district rate ranges, official-source links, nearby places, and any Porch Notes tied to that community.
County snapshot
Cities
1
Townships
8
Villages
0
School districts
5
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.1007 mills to 40.7956 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 40.7697 mills to 58.7956 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Alger County
City
Munising
1 school district available.
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Township
Au Train Township
3 school districts available.
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Township
Burt Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Grand Island Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Limestone Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Mathias Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Munising Township
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Township
Onota Township
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Township
Rock River Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Alger County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Alger County · Outdoors
Grand Island, the wild island off Munising
Half a mile off Munising lies Grand Island -- about 13,500 acres of Lake Superior woodland with no cars, reachable by ferry, once owned by an iron company and now a national recreation area.
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Grand Marais and the Grand Sable Dunes
At the quiet eastern end of Pictured Rocks, the harbor town of Grand Marais opens onto the Grand Sable Dunes, Sable Falls, the Log Slide, and the 1874 Au Sable Light.
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How Alger County got its name
Alger County was carved from Schoolcraft County in 1885 and named for Russell A. Alger -- a lumber baron, Civil War cavalry general, and the sitting governor of Michigan at the time.
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Is there a city income tax in Munising?
Munising charges no city income tax -- and no community in the entire Upper Peninsula does. The nearest one is Grayling, well over a hundred miles south.
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Munising's furnace, tannery, and paper mill
Munising takes its name from the Ojibwe word for 'at the island,' and was born twice -- once around an 1867 iron furnace, and again when the railroad arrived in 1895. Its paper mill has run for more than a century.
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Pictured Rocks, the first national lakeshore
Just east of Munising, Lake Superior meets the multicolored sandstone cliffs of Pictured Rocks -- the first national lakeshore in the United States, best seen from the water.
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