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Hurley, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Hurley City. It lies in ZIP code area 54534. The Survey maps it on the Ironwood quadrangle. 1,558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.

Hurley within Iron County

On record in Hurley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hurley grew from 1,547 to 1,558 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,547
20201,558+11 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hurley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Hurley: 24 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katie Saari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurley in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000LightningHurley2 hurtA couple were struck by lightning while camping on an island in the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, causing injuries severe enough for hospitalization.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHurley-A few trees were knocked down into business parking lots along 10th Avenue North.
August 2016HailHurley-The hailstones ranged from the size of peas to just less than the size of quarters. The hail fell for approximately 10 minutes.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHurley-Sporadic wind damage was reported, especially along the Rt 2 corridor.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHurley-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
July 1997HailHurley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Germania2.2 miles14
Orva2.4 miles14
Gile2.5 miles14
Montreal3.5 miles14
Van Buskirk4.9 miles14
Pence5.1 miles11
Hoyt6.6 miles11
Kimball6.7 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HurleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013679The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1566822. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.