Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Hastings, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44843. The Survey maps it on the Lucas quadrangle.

Hastings within Richland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hastings, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Hastings, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

16,273 words on this township

History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

One of the earliest schools was located on Michael Shinnebarger's land, and one also near what is now called the Hastings Post OflSce. This post office was established in 1829, being the first one established in the township. John Tucker was one of the early school teachers. He was a New Hampshire Yankee, and was one of Johmi}' Appleseed's converts, and also a doctor.

Passage source: History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880.

The Rev. Michael Schuh, one of the founders of the Mount Zion Church, was a very learned man - a German scholar, and for a long time kept a select school in the old log church, which he was instrumental in erecting, on the site of Mount Zion Church. It was a high school or seminary, and was started about 1820. Many of the influential men of the township were partially educated there. Mrs. John Swigart, before mentioned, came from Washington County, Penn., and settled near New Lisbon in 1804 ; and in what was then called the Twentysecond Township, now Orange Township, Ashland County, in 1814. She removed from there to Monroe in 1821. Solomon Gladden, John Lambright and Adam Wininger were her neighbors then. Mr. Gladden came to the township in 1816, but did not settle permanently until 1817. He was a ver}' excellent, well-informed and prominent man ; serving man}' years as Justice of the Peace, and one term in the Legislature. He was also something of a military man, commanding the Perryville rifle regiment, and serving with credit in the war of 1812.

The Pleasant Valley English Lutheran Church w'as organized in 1863, and a church erected about the same time on Section 28, near the residence of John J. Douglas. Charles Schrack donated the ground for this church, with the understanding that it should be free to all denominations when not occupied l)y the Lutherans. The principal original members were John J. Douglas, Aurelius Tucker. Lemuel Craig. George Swigart. John Swigart, Benjamin and Adam Beny, Joseph Hastings and others. The church is a neat, substantial brick, and cost about $3,000. It was erected during the war, when political matters divided the people of that, as well as other townships, and under the excitement and feeling engendered by that struggle, the regular Pastors of the other Lutheran churches in the township did not occupy its pulpit, but the feeling has now subsided, and the '- brethren dwell together in unitv."

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hastings between 2005 and 2018, burning about 15 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
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1122
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 724 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 724 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hastings between 1835 and 1975: 486 Plantae, 229 Animalia, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M.H., Aknown, Berra, T. (Tim) and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
Alisma subcordatum Raf.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex stricta Lam.	1835	Herb. of E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
Penthorum sedoides L.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Verbascum thapsus L.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Achillea millefolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Angelica atropurpurea L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield

All 724 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hastings: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bellville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Bellville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Derwacter S & G Belleville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dh Bowman & Sons Bellville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weber Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hastings in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 tornado. 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
June 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Hastings	$2,000	The tornado began at a farmstead along Possum Run Road, near the intersection with Snyder Road, and destroyed an outbuilding. As the tornado moved east-southeastward, it produced extensive tree damage before entering Ashland County. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

Every storm recorded in Richland County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Little Washington	3.2 miles	13
Newville	3.6 miles	13
Lucas	3.7 miles	13
Lockhart	3.9 miles	14
Pinhook	4.0 miles	13
Gatton Rock	4.0 miles	14
Culler Mill	4.1 miles	13
Cesarea	4.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064812. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.