Hastings Community Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1912.

From the record

“The Hastings Community Center was a historic building in Hastings, Florida, United States. It was built in 1937 with a combination of local government and Works Progress Administration funding.”
Wikipedia article Hastings Community Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for St. Johns County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 401 North Main St., Hastings, 32145
When was it listed? February 2007
Category. building
Census division. Hastings
National Register reference number. 07000057 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Hastings Community Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 12 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
Natural	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	BRIDGEPORT RD (54)
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/MILLICAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016	Natural	49 acres	Florida Forest Service	FOREST CREEK 2 (54)
17 September 2008	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF HUTCHSON
14 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE
29 August 2016	Natural	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	FOREST CREEK (54)
20 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/ROUND HOUSE FIRE/0861
20 August 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Johns County

Storms near this property

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hastings, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 4 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2004	Lightning	Hastings	1 killed	no account filed
August 2011	Lightning	Hastings	$100,000	Lightning caused a house fire along Morrison Road. The home was severely damaged, and the cost of damage was estimated.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$25,000	Six homes with roof damage.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$20,000	Sixty to eighty feet of a church roof blown off and onto power lines.
July 2002	Tornado (F0)	Hastings	$10,000	Tore roof off of a barn.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$4,500	Storage building and fence destroyed. Two semi's were moved.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$3,000	Putnam County Emergency Management reported \| wind damage just across the county border in \| St. Johns County just to the west of \| Hastings, along Old Hastings Road. A \| Recreational Vehicle was flipped, damage to \| roofs was reported, along with damage to \| farm outbuildings. Time of damage based on \| radar data. Nearby weather stations measured wind gusts of 40-50 mph. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$3,000	Fruit stands damaged at I-95 truck stop.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$2,500	no account filed
October 1996	Tornado (F0)	Hastings	$2,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down along CR-207.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	$500	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
January 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	St. Johns County Fire/Rescue reported a tree downed on a home due to strong wind gusts, along with damage to trees and power lines in the vicinity of Hastings. The time of damage was based on radar data.
October 2024	Flood	Hastings	-	At 6:05 am, major flooding along Deep Creek was occurring near Hastings with around 5.5 ft MHHW reported. This site reaches major flood stage at 4.2 ft MHHW. Widespread flooding rainfall combined with storm surge was caused widespread flooding across the area, including within the city limits of Hastings. At 6:07 am, major flooding was impacting communities near Haw Creek where widespread flooding rainfall was attempting to drain in the St. Johns river basin, but the river was surging limiting drainage. Several homes were surrounded by flood water and some homes had flood water damage.
April 2023	Hail	Hastings	-	About golf ball sized hail fell near Hastings.
December 2023	Flood	Hastings	-	State Road 207 near Hastings was flooded and impassable due to about 4 inches of flood water across the road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	A tree was blown down across North Street in Hastings.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	A tree and power lines were blown down near 100 North Dancy Street.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	Trees were blown down over a road. Time of damage based on radar.
January 2010	Flood	Hastings	-	Flooded roads caused a school bus to partially slide off of the road and into a retention ditch near First Federal Bank off of State Road 207 in Hastings. One child was on the bus and there were no injuries.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	Winds were estimated between 50 and 60 mph at a sports shop in Hastings.
August 2008	Hail	Hastings	-	Penny size hail was observed near Armstrong.
February 2007	Flood	Hastings	-	Heavy rainfall and poor drainage contributed to flooding in the Flagler Estates neighborhood in St. Johns County. Several roads were flooded with at least one car in a ditch following the flooding. Some portions of the roadway were washed out. Source 2/3/2007 St. Augustine Record.
February 2007	Heavy Rain	Hastings	-	Measured 3.90 inches.
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Hastings	-	Two funnel clouds sighted.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings	-	no account filed
July 2003	Funnel Cloud	Hastings	-	no account filed
May 2000	Funnel Cloud	Hastings	-	no account filed
August 2000	Funnel Cloud	Hastings	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Hastings	-	no account filed
May 1999	Funnel Cloud	Hastings	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Hastings	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Hastings	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Hastings	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Johns County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1912 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hastings High School	0.5 miles	2006
	Sanchez Homestead	2.3 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000057 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Johns County	All 51 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.