County
Delta County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Delta 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
2
Townships
14
Villages
0
School districts
7
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 22.3591 mills to 41.4133 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 40.3591 mills to 59.1495 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Delta County
City
Escanaba
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Gladstone
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Baldwin Township
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Bark River Township
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Bay De Noc Township
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Brampton Township
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Cornell Township
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Ensign Township
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Escanaba Township
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Fairbanks Township
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Ford River Township
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Garden Township
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Maple Ridge Township
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Masonville Township
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Nahma Township
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Wells Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Delta County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Delta County · History and culture
Escanaba: ore docks, a lighthouse, and the U.P.'s own fair
Escanaba grew up as one of the great iron-ore ports on the lakes, kept by a pioneering woman lighthouse keeper -- and since 1928 it has thrown the U.P.'s own state fair every August.
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Fayette, the town the iron company left behind
At the tip of the Garden Peninsula sits Fayette -- a complete 1860s iron-smelting company town, emptied in 1891 and preserved ever since, now one of the best-kept historic townsites in the country.
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Fayette: the ghost town Delta County kept perfect
Delta County's Garden Peninsula holds Fayette Historic State Park — a complete 1880s iron-smelting town preserved on a white-cliffed harbor.
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Fishing the Bays de Noc
Gladstone and Escanaba sit on some of the best fishing water in the Midwest -- the Bays de Noc, famous for trophy walleye and a smallmouth bass fishery state biologists have called world-class.
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How Delta County got its name
Delta County is named for the Greek letter -- because the county's original 1843 borders formed a neat triangle. Then it gave away so much territory that the triangle disappeared.
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How Gladstone got its name (and Kipling too)
Gladstone began in 1887 as a railroad town called Minnewasca -- then took the name of a British prime minister to thank the British investors who finished the railroad. A neighboring stop became Kipling.
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