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Ontonagon County, Michigan

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Cities

0

Townships

11

Villages

0

School districts

5

Primary home (PRE) rates, for homes with Michigan's Principal Residence Exemption, range from 29.1653 mills to 45.7788 mills.

Other property, often called non-homestead, usually means rentals, vacation homes, and second homes. Those rates range from 47.1653 mills to 63.7788 mills.

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

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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

Bond Falls, the U.P.'s postcard waterfall

Near Paulding in southern Ontonagon County, the Ontonagon River spreads across a hundred feet of fractured rock to make Bond Falls -- one of the most photographed and easiest-to-reach waterfalls in the Upper Peninsula.

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Ontonagon County · History and culture

How Ontonagon got its name -- and the copper boulder behind it

Ontonagon is an Ojibwe name, carried by the river before the county. And on that river once sat the Ontonagon Boulder -- a sacred 3,700-pound chunk of pure copper, known to the Ojibwe for centuries, now in the Smithsonian.

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Ontonagon County · Money and taxes

Is there a city income tax in Ontonagon?

There's no city income tax in Ontonagon County -- and there couldn't easily be one, since the county's only incorporated community is the Village of Ontonagon. The nearest income tax is Grayling, well over two hundred miles away.

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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

Lake Gogebic's quieter, northern half

The Upper Peninsula's biggest inland lake, Lake Gogebic, reaches up into southwestern Ontonagon County -- where the village of Bergland sits on its northern shore, an hour and a time zone away from the lake's southern end.

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Ontonagon County · History and culture

Old Victoria, the copper village frozen in time

Near Rockland, a cluster of hand-hewn log cabins still stands where copper miners and their families lived a century ago -- one of the oldest log villages remaining on its original site in America, preserved by volunteers.

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Ontonagon County · Outdoors

The Porcupine Mountains, Michigan's biggest wild park

The 'Porkies' are Michigan's largest state park -- some sixty thousand acres of virgin forest, wild rivers, and Lake Superior shoreline, crowned by the unforgettable view over Lake of the Clouds.

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