The Hastings plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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90° on Nov. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1978. Next is 86° in 1986.
Hastings’s center stands about 18 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Holocene sediments (sand), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Hastings reaches the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Deep Creek: about 75 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hastings; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hastings has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 45° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hastings normally reaches 75° and falls to 54°. The record high is 86°, in 2018; the record low 36°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 2.07 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1978 at Hastings 4 NE, 4 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
