Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Hollins, AL

Hollins is an unincorporated census-designated place in southwest Clay County, in east-central Alabama; it has no municipal government of its own.

Hollins began in the late 1800s when the Columbus and Western Railway reached the area, and a post office opened under the name Hollins in 1887.

The community is named for an official of the Kaul Lumber Company: John Kaul bought out the Sample Lumber Company at Hollins in 1888 and founded the Kaul Lumber Company there.

In its lumber-boom years, Hollins had the Kaul Lumber headquarters and mill, a hotel, several general stores, three churches, a school, and a cotton gin.

Hollins incorporated on February 21, 1893, and in 1890 and 1900 it was the second-largest community in Clay County, behind only the county seat, Ashland.

Hollins reached its peak population of 688 people in the 1910 census, at the height of the lumber era.

The Kaul Lumber mill burned in 1908 and was rebuilt, but in 1911 the mill closed and moved to Kaulton; the population declined, and Hollins's town charter was dissolved on September 25, 1919.

Hollins was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2010 census, and with that recognition it resumed its standing as the third most populous community in Clay County.

The 2020 census counted 517 people in Hollins, down from 545 in 2010, spread across about 11.9 square miles for a density of only about 44 people per square mile.

The Hollins community is served by ZIP code 35072.