[3] Bay Mills Township is in northern Chippewa County on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and is bordered to the north by Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior and to the northeast by the St. Marys River.

By road, the community of Bay Mills is 20 miles (32 km) west of Sault Ste.

41.51% was of Ojibwe, 6.7% German, 6.6% French, 6.6% Irish, 6.2% English, 3.0% American, 2.7% French-Canadian, 2.6% Scottish, 2.6% Norwegian, and 2.4% Italian ancestry.

23.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In 2021, on Easter Sunday the Kateri Tekakwitha church in Bay Mills, Michigan burnt.