County
Gogebic County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Gogebic 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
6
Villages
0
School districts
4
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 26.8665 mills to 51.4251 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 44.6815 mills to 69.2559 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Gogebic County
City
Bessemer
1 school district available.
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City
Ironwood
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City
Wakefield
1 school district available.
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Township
Bessemer Township
2 school districts available.
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Township
Erwin Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Ironwood Township
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Township
Marenisco Township
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Township
Wakefield Township
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Township
Watersmeet Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Gogebic County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Gogebic County · Outdoors
Copper Peak, where skiers fly
Just north of Ironwood stands Copper Peak -- the only ski-flying hill in the Western Hemisphere and the tallest artificial ski jump on Earth, now being rebuilt to host the world's best again.
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How Gogebic County got its name
Gogebic County takes its name from Lake Gogebic -- an Ojibwe name, Agogebic, whose exact meaning has been debated for over a century. This was Lake Superior Chippewa country long before it was a county.
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Ironwood, the Gogebic Range, and Big Snow Country
Ironwood was born from some of the richest iron ore in Michigan and named for the miner whose ore-stained hands gave the town its name -- and when the mines closed, the deep snow gave it a second life.
Read this note ->Gogebic County · Money and taxes
Is there a city income tax in Ironwood or Bessemer?
Neither Ironwood, Bessemer, nor Wakefield charges a city income tax -- and neither does anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula. The nearest one is Grayling, well over two hundred miles away.
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Lake Gogebic, the U.P.'s biggest inland lake
Lake Gogebic is the largest inland lake in the Upper Peninsula -- a fifteen-mile fishing paradise so big it sits in two counties and two time zones at once, ringed by the Ottawa National Forest.
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What to know about well and septic in Gogebic County
Outside the cities, most of Gogebic County is on private well and septic. Michigan has no statewide septic code, and the local health department doesn't require an inspection when a property is sold -- though it offers one that some home loans and buyers ask for.
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