The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHills is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Iowa City, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 863 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Iowa City Community School District.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 703 to 863 (+23%). Half of its homes were built before 1977.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hills 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.
Start Hills’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hills’s history is told.
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Hills, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Hills is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Hills has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Miller Round Barn in Hills, 4.9 miles away.
Hills and the nearest listed places
Closest to Hills
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.