The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusColfax Township is a township in Harrison County, Missouri, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 599. Colfax township was created due to a county-wide November 1872 election, which would subdivide the county into 20 municipal townships corresponding with the county's 20 congressional townships.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 563 to 599 (+6%). Half of its homes were built before 1971.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Colfax 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 Colfax’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Colfax’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Colfax, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Colfax is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Colfax has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Liberty Hall in Lamoni, 8.3 miles away.
Colfax and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.