Do you know of Hastings ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hastings. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Hastings.
Our sources for Hastings (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Hastings other than they indicate that Hastings would be found somewhere in Las Animas County, Colorado.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1939.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Hastings ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Hastings.
Within Colorado, the name Hastings is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 30 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Georgia
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hastings [Clayton County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kosciusko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Hastings [Kosciusko County].
- Iowa
- Mills County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Hastings [Mills County].
- Kansas
- Graham County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hastings [Graham County].
- Thomas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hastings [Thomas County].
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Hastings [Oxford County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Hastings [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hastings [Barry County].
- Oakland County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Hastings [Oakland County].
- Minnesota
- Dakota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hastings [Dakota County].
- Nebraska
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hastings [Adams County].
- New Hampshire
- Merrimack County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Hastings [Merrimack County].
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hastings [Oswego County].
- Westchester County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hastings [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Barnes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hastings [Barnes County].
- Nova Scotia
- Ohio
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hastings [Richland County].
- Oklahoma
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hastings [Jefferson County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hastings.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hastings [Allegheny County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hastings [Cambria County].
- Forest County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hastings [Forest County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Brazoria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hastings [Brazoria County].
- Kendall County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Hastings [Kendall County].
- West Virginia
- Wetzel County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hastings [Wetzel County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hastings ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hastings:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hastings - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
More Orphans in Las Animas County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Las Animas County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Hastings could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |