Hastings, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waurika census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73548. The Survey maps it on the Waurika West quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHastings fell from 155 to 104 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 155 | |
| 2010 | 143 | -12 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 104 | -39 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Waurika West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Burkburnett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hastings in 2000, burning about 1,200 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,200 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | SQUEALER |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hastings: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Manganese, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masner Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | 1932 | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | 1941 | |
| Waurika West-3 | Copper, Manganese | Occurrence | 1940 |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hastings in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 16 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | 1 hurt, $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Hastings | $5,000 | A sun roof on a residential structure was damaged. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hastings | - | No damage reported. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Several trees and power lines downed. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Hastings | - | Tornado #D1. A tornado developed within the town of Hastings and moved northeast, seriously damaging a home. The tornado continued northeast over Waurika Lake and dissipated near the east shore of the lake. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Several street signs were blown over. Numerous tree limbs were also downed. Monetary damages were not available. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Hastings | - | Roads on the east and west sides of Waurika Lake were closed due to rapidly rising water. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | Thunderstorms developed in northwestern Oklahoma during the early morning hours on the 11th and moved southeast. These storms produced hail up to half dollar-size, damaging winds, damaging lightning, and flash flooding rains. Thunderstorm winds broke off large tree limbs eight miles west of Velma, three miles southwest of Hastings, and seven miles south of Carnegie, downed power lines and antennas, overturned a granary and damaged trees in Corn, downed power lines, and broke off tree limbs in Alfalfa, blew the roof off a barn and damaged a travel trailer on the south side of Clinton and damaged roofs, downed trees and signs and blew awnings off buildings in Clinton. Heavy rain resulted in a flooded road near the gate 2 entrance to Fort Sill. Two vehicles were stranded in the high water with one vehicle overturning. Lightning started a fire which destroyed a house on the south side of Duncan. Damage to the house was estimated at $60,000 with damage to the contents of the house estimated at $30,000. Lightning struck a tree and damaged a nearby antenna in Corn. Lightning knocked out the police department communication system and destroyed a $10,000 recorder in Anadarko. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Hastings | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | 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 Q2461618 | 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 1093597. 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.



