Facts About Hastings
- Hastings was founded in 1872 at the intersection of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad and St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad.
- Hastings was named for Colonel D. T. Hastings of St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad, who was instrumental in building the railroad through Adams County.
- Hastings has a total area of 13.66 square miles, of which 13.48 square miles is land and 0.18 square miles is water.
- A National Weather Service Forecast Office is located in Hastings, serving central and south-central Nebraska and six counties in north-central Kansas.
- Hastings is the principal city of the Hastings, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Adams and Clay counties.
- Hastings is known as the town where Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in 1927 and celebrates that event with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August.
- Hastings is known for Fisher Fountain, The Jacob Fisher Rainbow Fountain in Highland Park is the largest water fountain between Chicago and Denver.
- During World War II Hastings operated the largest Naval Ammunition Depot in the United States.
- Hastings Municipal Airport, owned and operated by the City of Hastings
- Heartwell Park and Central Hastings, two of the oldest neighbourhoods, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
