County
Baraga County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Baraga 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
0
Townships
5
Villages
0
School districts
6
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 24.7644 mills to 41.8497 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 37.7644 mills to 59.8497 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Baraga County
Township
Arvon Township
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Township
Baraga Township
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Township
Covington Township
1 school district available.
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Township
L'anse Township
2 school districts available.
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Township
Spurr Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Baraga County
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Baraga County · Outdoors
Canyon Falls, the 'Grand Canyon of the U.P.'
An easy walk off US-41 leads to Canyon Falls, where the Sturgeon River drops into a dark, sheer-walled gorge that's earned it the nickname the 'Grand Canyon of the Upper Peninsula.'
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How Baraga County got its name: the Snowshoe Priest
Baraga County is named for Bishop Frederic Baraga, the 'Snowshoe Priest' who walked hundreds of winter miles to reach scattered villages, learned Ojibwe, and wrote its first dictionary. A towering shrine to him overlooks Keweenaw Bay near L'Anse.
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Is there a city income tax in Baraga County?
There's no city income tax in Baraga County -- and there couldn't be one, since the county has no cities at all, just the villages of L'Anse and Baraga. The nearest is Grayling, well over a hundred miles away.
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Mount Arvon, the top of Michigan
Tucked in the Huron Mountains of Baraga County, Mount Arvon is the highest point in Michigan -- a quiet, forested summit at the end of a rough logging road, with a mailbox at the top for visitors to sign.
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Pequaming, the town Henry Ford bought
On a bear-shaped point jutting into Keweenaw Bay, the old lumber town of Pequaming was bought whole by Henry Ford in 1923 to feed his car factories with wood. Today it's one of the U.P.'s most striking ghost towns.
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The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the L'Anse Reservation
Much of Baraga County sits on the L'Anse Reservation -- the oldest and largest in Michigan, home of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, an Ojibwe nation that has governed these shores of Keweenaw Bay for generations.
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