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City in Iron County

Hurley

Population
1,558
County
Iron County
Location
46.444, -90.211

Hurley is an incorporated city and the county seat of Iron County in far-northern Wisconsin, sitting directly across the Montreal River from Ironwood, Michigan on the Wisconsin-Michigan line. It covers about 3.1 square miles; the 2020 Census counted 1,558 residents and the Wisconsin DOA estimates 1,526 as of January 1, 2025, part of a long, slow decline from 1,818 in 2000. Governed by a mayor and six-member council (Mayor Joanne Bruneau), served by the Hurley School District (544 students, 2024-2025), Hurley trades on its iron-mining and Prohibition-era Silver Street heritage and a Snow Capital reputation, anchoring a four-season snowmobiling, skiing, ATV, and waterfall-tourism economy in the Gogebic Range.

The record

884 records name Hurley

  • 769 news
  • 62 government
  • 39 events
  • 8 obituaries
  • 5 opinion
  • 1 notices

Showing the 40 most recent of 884. Every one is held, cited, and searchable in the archive.

What the records show

41 of 59 independently verified

Authoritative data

Overview

Population and demographics

Government and civic

Schools

Economy and employers

  • Industry: tourism, government, education, health care, historic mining/logging inferred via hurleywi.com Reasoned from other facts on this page, not reported directly.
  • Tourism: dominant secondary source via hurleywi.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Employers: Iron County govt; Hurley School District; Aspirus unverified via co.iron.wi.gov We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Institutions and anchors

  • Clinic: Aspirus Hurley Clinic, 501 Granite Street via locations.aspirus.org
  • Hospital: Aspirus Ironwood Hospital (Ironwood, MI) unverified via locations.aspirus.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Library: Hurley Public Library, 405 5th Avenue North unverified via cityofhurleywi.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Postoffice: USPS Hurley, ZIP 54534 unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Business and commerce

  • Chamber: Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce, 316 Silver Street via hurleywi.com
  • Downtown: Silver Street secondary source via hurleywi.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.

Media

  • Ironcountyminer: Iron County Miner via ironcountyminer.com
  • Dailyglobe: The Daily Globe (Ironwood, MI) unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Recreation and natural assets

  • Knownfor: Snow Capital / mining heritage / outdoor recreation secondary source via hurleywi.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Penokee: Penokee/Gogebic Range; ~18 mi to Lake Superior secondary source via en.wikipedia.org Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Montreal river: Montreal River, Saxon Falls unverified via hurleywi.com We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Whitecap: Whitecap Mountains Resort unverified via hurleywi.com We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Trails: 500+ unverified via hurleywi.com We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Events and seasonal rhythm

  • Slate: Festival Italiano; Heritage Days; ATV/UTV Rally secondary source via hurleywi.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Seasonal: winter-peaked, four-season secondary source via hurleywi.com Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Redlight: Red Light Rally unverified via hurleywi.com We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Paavo: Paavo Nurmi Marathon unverified via hurleywi.com We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Infrastructure and access

  • Highways: US 2, US 51 (northern terminus), WIS 77 secondary source via en.wikipedia.org Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Land area: 3.092 via www2.census.gov
  • Water area: 0.15 via www2.census.gov
  • Coords: 46.444285, -90.211266 via www2.census.gov
  • Border: across Montreal River from Ironwood, MI secondary source via en.wikipedia.org Relayed by a secondary source. The primary record is cited but was not independently re-read.
  • Airport: Gogebic-Iron County Airport (KIWD), Ironwood MI unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Nearest hub: Ironwood, MI (adjacent); Ashland ~60 mi unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Broadband: not verified unverified via cityofhurleywi.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.
  • Elevation: 1496 unverified via en.wikipedia.org We could not confirm this against a primary public record, so we are telling you rather than hiding it.

Local government

In memory, from Hurley

All obituaries

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