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Dickinson County, Michigan

Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Dickinson 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

3

Townships

7

Villages

0

School districts

4

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 23.8083 mills to 44.2364 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 41.8083 mills to 62.0407 mills.

Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

How Dickinson County got its name

On May 21, 1891, Michigan drew its very last county line -- and named its newest county for Donald M. Dickinson, a Detroit lawyer who had just served as the nation's Postmaster General.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

How Norway, Michigan got its name

Norway grew up on the Menominee Iron Range in the 1870s -- and its name has two tellings, one about Norwegian settlers and one about a great stand of Norway pine.

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Dickinson County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Iron Mountain?

Iron Mountain charges no city income tax -- neither do Kingsford or Norway, and neither does anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula. The nearest one is Grayling, well over a hundred miles away.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

Kingsford: the town Ford built, the charcoal on your grill

Kingsford had about forty residents in 1920. Then Henry Ford built a wood empire here -- and the briquettes his plant pressed from sawmill waste became the Kingsford charcoal on grills across America.

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Dickinson County · Outdoors

Piers Gorge, the U.P.'s wildest water

South of Norway, the Menominee River squeezes through Piers Gorge in a run of roaring rapids -- some of the fastest water in Michigan or Wisconsin, and a genuine whitewater-rafting destination.

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Dickinson County · History and culture

The Cornish Pump, Iron Mountain's gentle giant

Iron Mountain's Chapin Mine was one of the wettest mines ever worked -- so they built the largest steam pumping engine in American history to keep it dry. It's still here, all 725 tons of it.

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