Several GIS layers are available for the Hastings Reservation and surrounding area. Layers include USGS topographic map and topographic grid, Hastings place names, property boundaries and assessor parcel numbers, Calhoon’s small mammal trap line locations, aerial color photos from 1995, Lauryn Benedict’s trap locations, John Davis’ Towhee trap locations, infrastructure features, IKONOS satellite remote sensing vegetation pictures, and ground truthed IKONOS-based vegetation classification map.

This data is part of the series of maps that covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Data is downloadable in various distribution formats.

The Hastings County 9-1-1 Address GIS shapefile (SHP) is available for public download and use through the Hastings County Open Data Portal. The data is updated every 8-10 weeks for disruption to regional emergency service providers. The geospatial data set covers the entire region of Hastings County, excluding the two incorporated Cities of Belleville and Quinte West.

1m Contours 2009. Covers the Urban Areas of the Hastings District

All available bathymetry and related information for Hastings Lake were collected and hard copy maps digitized where necessary. The data were validated against more recent data (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 'SRTM' imagery and Indian Remote Sensing 'IRS' imagery) and corrected where necessary. The published data set contains the lake bathymetry formatted as an Arc ascii grid. Bathymetric contours and the boundary polygon are available as shapefiles.

District Plan Designations. Used in the Operative DP March 2020 (Partially Operative District Plan with the exception of Section 16.1 and Appendix 50)

The California Department of Water Resources (CA-DWR), North Central Region Office (NCRO), Bathymetry Data Collection Section, conducted a bathymetric survey of Little Hastings Tract and "Fong's Island" for the Bay Delta Office (BDO). The main purpose of the data is to replace outdated and inaccurate data, help with the evaluation of a large number of restoration proposals nearby, and supplement a December 2018 interferometric survey by USGS in adjacent waterways. This survey was cut short due to technical difficulties (later completed in July and August 2019). Numerous patches of heavy vegetation made it impossible to follow a neatly planned survey grid. The data were collected in NAD83 (California State Plane Zone II coordinate system) and NAVD88 datums.• Survey Dates: June 19, 2019 • Instrumentation: Singlebeam echo sounder with Inertially-Aided Post-Processed Kinematic (IAPPK) GPS procedures• Point Spacing: about 1 Foot• Horizontal Units: US Foot• Vertical Units: US Foot• Related datasets: Little Hastings Tract Singlebeam, August 2019; Fong's Island (Kayak) Singlebeam, July 2019; USGS Cache Slough Complex Interferometric, December 2018 (EXTERNAL)

The soil survey of Hastings County was begun in 1952 for the purpose of making an inventory of its soil resources. This consisted of the mapping of the various soils and gathering information about their characteristics from which to estimate their adaptability for the growing of agricultural crops. The following report contains a summary of the characteristics of each soil and offers suggestions concerning the management practices that may be required in order to obtain the best results. Those who are seeking soils information about certain area should locate the area on the map, note the colour or colours and the indicated map symbol and use the key to determine the soil type or type involved. Description of these types may be found in the report. Hastings County is located in what is called South Central Ontario. The County has a total land area of 1,486,720 acres of which 561,131 acres are occupied farmland.

Operative District Plan Zones. District wide zoning created for the Operative DP March 2020 (Partially Operative District Plan with the exception of Section 16.1 and Appendix 50).Updated January 2021 - Brookvale Residential Zone Change added

This vector dataset contains the liquefaction hazard maps for Wairoa, Central Hawke's Bay and Hastings districts based on geotechnical interpretaion of geological maps, shallow groundwater surface modelling, available geotechnical data on the NZGD and probabilistic seismic hazard model information. Refer to Sections 6.2 to 6.4 of Rosser and Dellow et al (2017) for a detailed description of the liquefaction hazard mapping methodology.This data can be used to understand the variation, spatially and temporally of liquefaction hazards in Hawke's Bay. The current maps are necessarily conservative to address the uncertainties in the data sources.This includes, for the Wairoa District Council, Central Hawke’s Bay District Council and Hastings District Council (outside the Heretaunga Plains), a buffer zone added to all the polygons identified as having a liquefaction hazard. This includes, for the Wairoa District Council, Central Hawke’s Bay District Council and Hastings District Council (outside the Heretaunga Plains), a buffer zone added to all the polygons identified as having a liquefaction hazard. The width of this buffer zone is 500 m (+/- 250 m) and allows for the differences between the accuracy of lines on a geological map at a scale of 1:250,000 (+/- 250 m) and the greater accuracy of property boundaries on cadastral maps to be reconciled. If a property is located wholly or partially within the buffer zone this indicates that there is uncertainty about the level of liquefaction hazard. Site specific assessments (ranging from visual inspection through to ground investigations) will be needed to determine the level of liquefaction hazard. If a buffer zone boundary line falls across a property it should initially be treated as being part of the higher hazard class for the purpose of interpreting the map. As additional subsurface and groundwater data becomes available and the science of liquefaction prediction improves the maps presented in this report will need review and revision. The liquefaction planning maps for Wairoa District, Central Hawke's Bay District and Hastings District (beyond the Heretaunga Plains) are not suitable for use in conjunction with their respective district plans because of the scale difference between the underpinning geological maps (1:250,000) used to delineate the liquefaction susceptibility and most district plan maps (1:1500 to 1:25,000) and the limited datasets used to compile the maps.

Much of the settled Hawke’s Bay region is low lying and built on river flood plains. This brings the risk of flooding, which is our most common natural hazard - a severe storm or flood happens every 10 years on average. Major storms affect wide areas and can be accompanied by strong winds, heavy rain or snowfall, thunder, lightning, and rough seas. They can cause damage to property and infrastructure, affect crops and livestock, disrupt essential services and cause coastal inundation.Rivers normally flood every winter when a storm brings more rainwater than can soak into the soil. When floods threaten communities the flood become a hazard. In Hawke's Bay stop banks have been built alongside many of the rivers to hold in the extra flood water. However in a severe storm, rivers could breach stop banks and the flood waters may go through farms, homes, shops, schools and damage roads and other infrastructure.There have been significant flood protection systems completed on the Heretaunga Plains and the Ruataniwha Plains. Flood protection works in Hawke’s Bay are generally designed to contain a 1% annual exceedance probability (AEP) flood). These works have significantly reduced the effect of small to medium sized floods, but a large flood could overwhelm the works and have a devastating effect. Such a flood, which exceeds the design capacity of the flood protection system, is called a Super Design Flood. Flooding from localised downpours in urban areas can also overwhelm drainage systems, so events below the AEP can still be costly.With climate change, rainfall patterns in the Hawke’s Bay are expected to change over the next century; winters are predicted to become drier, but overall flood risk is expected to increase as single events may be more intense.