Collins’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Collins. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCollins is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 495 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 495 people in 2010, 495 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1956.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Collins yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Collins’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Collins’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFarmer in town, 1939: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Collins
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Collins, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Collins is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Collins has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Calamus Creek Bridge in Maxwell, 4 miles away.
Collins and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Farmer in town (1939) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.