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.
What the records show
- Population: 1558 (2020 census), 1526 (latest official estimate) via doa.wi.gov
- Area: 3.092 sq mi land, 0.15 sq mi water, at 46.444285, -90.211266 via www2.census.gov
- Iron County holds 493 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Lake Michelle, Lake Lavina via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: City of Hurley via co.iron.wi.gov
- County: Iron County, Wisconsin via www2.census.gov
- Countyseat: county seat via co.iron.wi.gov
- Inctype: city via www2.census.gov
Local government
In memory, from Hurley
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