Collins is a census-designated place in central Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 631. The CDP includes the unincorporated communities of Collins and East Townsend. Collins has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44826.Some say the community was named after a railroad official named Collins, while others believe the place is named after Collinsville, Connecticut.Collins is in central Townsend Township in northeastern Huron County. The hamlet of Collins is in the northern part of the CDP on Hartland Center Road, 0.7 miles north of U.S. Route 20, while the hamlet of East Townsend is at the geographic center of the CDP, at the junction of Hartland Center Road and US 20. Route 20 leads east 5 miles to Wakeman and west 6 miles to Norwalk, the Huron county seat.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Collins CDP has an area of 4.6 square miles, of which 0.004 square miles, or 0.11%, are water.