Title: Hastings, Minnesota - Wikipedia
Headings: Hastings, Minnesota
Hastings, Minnesota
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Content: Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 11.18 square miles (28.96 km 2 ); 10.24 square miles (26.52 km 2) is land and 0.94 square miles (2.43 km 2) is water. The Mississippi River forms most of Hastings's northern border, while the Vermillion River flows through the southern part of town, over a falls adjacent to a ConAgra grain elevator. Bluffs lie along the northern shore of the Mississippi and there is a gorge surrounding the Vermillion below the falls. Hastings is home to two small lakes, Lake Rebecca and Lake Isabel. Both drain into the Mississippi River. The northeast corner of town is known as "The Bottoms"; an area of soggy marshland and flood plain for the Mississippi and Vermillion Rivers. Hastings is on the Mississippi side of the confluence with the St. Croix River, so that the St. Croix is "across" the Mississippi River. Prescott, Wisconsin is on the Wisconsin side of the confluence.