Hurley is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,547 at the 2010 census. It is located directly across the Montreal River from Ironwood, Michigan.

Hurley is located upon the Montreal River, the connect between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The city is upon U.S. Highway 2 (US 2), and is the northern terminus of US 51, and is just about 18 miles (29 km) south of Lake Superior. Hurley had its origins in the iron mining and lumbering booms of the 1880s. The city is located, along with neighboring Ironwood, Michigan, at the center of the Gogebic Range. The economy of Hurley, together bearing in mind the city of Montreal in Wisconsin, and the cities of Ironwood, Bessemer and Wakefield in Michigan, was dependent on the origin of iron ore from the Gogebic (a/k/a Penokee) Range during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Hurley took its pronounce from Canadian-born M. A. Hurley, a prominent attorney of Wausau who won a exploit for the Northern Chief Iron Company in 1884. The recompense for winning the court case was that he asked for no fee, but unaided requested that the town keen in the dogfight be named after him. M.A. Hurley held heap in the Northern Chief Iron Company. The full name “Glen Hurley” was used for one year, but in 1885, the first read out was dropped and the community became known as Hurley. The first Plat Map of Glen Hurley was recorded in the Ashland County Register of Deeds by C.N. Nutter, surveyor for the Northern Chief Iron Company of Wausau, in December 1884.

Hurley did not become a city until April 1918. Previously, it was share of the town of Vaughn, named after Samuel S. Vaughn, pioneer resident of Ashland, for whom the Vaughn Public Library is named. When the city of Hurley was created, the town of Vaughn was dissolved and at odds among the City of Hurley, the Town of Oma (Finnish for “Our Own”), the Town of Carey, and the Town of Kimball.