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Menominee County, Michigan

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

8

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 21.8652 mills to 43.9792 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 39.8652 mills to 61.9792 mills.

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

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Local notes from Menominee County

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Menominee County · History and culture

Hermansville and the floor that conquered America

When the pine ran out, the company town of Hermansville reinvented itself -- and its IXL maple flooring ended up in buildings across the country, including Yellowstone's Old Faithful Inn.

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Menominee County · History and culture

How Menominee County got its name

The river, the city, and the county all carry the name of the Menominee -- the Wild Rice People, whose own story begins at the mouth of this very river, and whose nation endures today.

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Menominee County · History and culture

How Stephenson got its name

Stephenson started as a railroad water stop called Wacedah, then took the name of the Stephenson lumber family in 1876 -- and Wisconsin's town of Stephenson, across the river, honors a different brother.

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Menominee County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Menominee?

Menominee charges no city income tax -- neither does Stephenson, and neither does anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula. The nearest one is Grayling, well over a hundred miles away.

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Menominee County · Outdoors

J.W. Wells State Park, where the old forest survived

On three miles of Green Bay shore stands J.W. Wells State Park -- built around a stand of virgin timber that survived the lumber boom, donated by a lumberman's own children in 1925.

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Menominee County · Outdoors

Menominee: river rapids, a Green Bay shore, and the U.P.'s mildest corner

Menominee County runs from the wild Menominee River to Green Bay's M-35 beach drive — the warmest, most farmable corner of the Upper Peninsula.

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