BlockHastings, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Indian Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51540. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emerson quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHastings grew from 152 to 152 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 152 | |
| 2020 | 152 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Emerson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hastings in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | $8,000 | Three thousand bushel grain bin rolled over and heavily damaged. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A 58 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A mesonet station recorded a 76 miles per hour wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A mesonet station recorded a 73 miles per hour wind gust. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A tree was blown down and damaged a house. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph was measured on a home weather station. The wind snapped a tree off just above ground level and also downed many limbs in the Hastings area. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorm winds gusts were estimated at 55 to 60 mph by a trained spotter. The storms that night also dropped around 2 inches of rain. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph by a spotter. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed numerous tree limbs in the area ranging from 6 inches to 16 inches in diameter. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | A spotter estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph were accompanied by very heavy rain, although no rain amount was given. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 60 mph ripped the siding off of a house and blew a car trailer on top of a pickup truck. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hastings | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1922668 | The 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 457311. 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.
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.