Hartley, IA

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The City with a Heart

With a population of 1,672, Hartley, Iowa is a small but vibrant community in O’Brien County that builds on its traditional agricultural strengths in diverse and innovative ways. Hartley supports and attracts a range of new and diverse technology-based businesses, with an economy that is buoyed up by a variety of recreational opportunities and events.

Located in the northwest corner of Iowa, 20 miles west of Spencer on U.S. Highway 18 and 20 miles east of Sheldon on U.S. Highway 18, Hartley’s friendly small-town atmosphere offers visitors and residents a quality of life that is unparalleled, and the Chamber of Commerce strongly promotes business activities and events that strengthen the local economy. People flock to Hartley each year on the first weekend of August for the town’s “Summerfest” celebration. Hartley is served by the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District and the Hartley Public Library is open Monday through Saturdays throughout the year. Hartley’s Meadowbrook Golf & Country Club is a municipally run 9-hole golf club located 3.5 miles south of town on M12. It holds the distinction of being named Iowa’s 2003 9-Hole Course of the Year. As far back as the 1870s, Hartley’s faith community was developed when area Methodists conducted the town’s first Sunday school classes in a private home. Ten years later, the first church in Hartley was built, and today there are four churches located within Hartley that provide spiritual inspiration and faith enhancement to family and friends: Hartley’s Community Center is often used for special events and as the meeting place where town residents gather to prove the point that theirs is “A City with a Heart” full of engaged, caring citizens.