County
Keweenaw County, Michigan
Use this county page to find cities, townships, and villages in Keweenaw 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
4
Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 26.5358 mills to 36.4873 mills.
Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 31.7714 mills to 54.4873 mills.
Rate rows come from the official Michigan Treasury millage-rate reports . Last reviewed June 8, 2026.
Local pages
Places in Keweenaw County
Township
Allouez Township
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Township
Eagle Harbor Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Grant Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Houghton Township
1 school district available.
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Township
Sherman Township
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Porch Notes
Local notes from Keweenaw County
Stories, practical notes, and local details tied to places in this county.
Keweenaw County · Outdoors
Copper Harbor, the end of the road
At the very tip of the Keweenaw sits Copper Harbor -- Michigan's northernmost town and the spot where US-41 finally ends, nearly two thousand miles from its other end in Miami.
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Eagle River and Eagle Harbor, two jewels on the shore
Two tiny lakefront villages on the Keweenaw's north shore -- Eagle River, the county seat, and Eagle Harbor with its classic red lighthouse. Just offshore is where the man the county and copper rush owe everything to, Douglass Houghton, drowned.
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Is there a city income tax in Keweenaw County?
There's no city income tax in Keweenaw County -- and there couldn't be one, since the county has no cities at all. The nearest is Grayling, well over two hundred miles away.
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Isle Royale, the national park almost nobody visits
Far out in Lake Superior -- but still part of Keweenaw County -- Isle Royale is the least-visited national park in the Lower 48: a roadless wilderness of wolves, moose, and water reachable only by boat or seaplane.
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The Cliff Mine, where Copper Country began
At the now-vanished town of Clifton, the Cliff Mine became the first truly successful copper mine in Michigan -- proving the Keweenaw's riches were real and setting off everything that followed.
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What 'Keweenaw' means
Keweenaw is an Ojibwe word for a portage -- the place where you carry your canoe across the land. It names the county, the peninsula, and the whole copper-rich corner that the Ojibwe knew and worked long before anyone else.
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