Maxwell is a small agricultural community in Story County where life revolves around farming, family, and the Collins-Maxwell school district. The village offers a quiet, affordable lifestyle with a handful of residential streets surrounded by open cropland.
Maxwell's position on the flat central Iowa prairie provides zero natural windbreak, allowing bitter winter gusts to assault homes from every direction and push indoor temperatures down when windows are poorly insulated.
Maxwell's older housing stock consists mostly of homes built well before modern energy standards. Their original windows allow significant heat loss during Iowa's brutal winters, and upgrading to sealed triple-pane units provides essential comfort and reduces expensive heating costs for rural homeowners.
Maxwell Community Park and the Collins-Maxwell school campus
Our home in Maxwell had old single-pane windows that made the kitchen unbearably cold in winter. Panes replaced all of them and the temperature difference is night and day. We actually enjoy being home in January now. — Linda F., Downtown Maxwell