Ames, Iowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 23 shown

• Knapp-Wilson HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Agriculture Halllisted 1985
• Alumni Halllisted 1978
• Ames High Schoollisted 2002
• Ames Main Street Historic Districtlisted 2018
• Bandshell Park Historic Districtlisted 1999
• Budd, Prof, J.L., Sarah M., and Etta Budd, Houselisted 2001
• Christian Petersen Courtyard Sculptures, and Dairy Industry Buildinglisted 1987
• Colonials Club Houselisted 2012
• Delta Upsilon Chapter Houselisted 2010
• Engineering Halllisted 1983
• Gilmour B. and Edith Craig MacDonald Houselisted 1992

Every listing in Story County

Ames grew from 58,965 to 66,427 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1912 USGS Ames quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1914 USGS Ames quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Ames East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Ames quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Ames between 2006 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Homestead Colony
• Bloomington
• Ontario
• Gilbert
• Zenorsville
• Kelley

Every fire recorded in Story County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ames: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Story County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ames in 272 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 99 thunderstorm wind, 85 hail, 52 heavy rain, 18 flood. The reports record 9 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Story County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 454167. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.