Built in 1835 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Ames Academy Building is a historic school building located at Ames, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1835 and is a two-story, rectangular, gable roofed, stone masonry building five bays long and two bays wide.”
Wikipedia article Ames Academy Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1835, Federal architecture.
National Register reference number.01001496- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
66 since 1999
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Ames Academy Building
between 1999 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 20 were 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.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
27
Arson/incendiarism
20
Debris and open burning
12
Natural
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ames, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Half of a large barn steel roof was damaged. Another single story barn had about 24 feet of roof peel back from the eves and an old garage with corrugated steel roof lost metal on both sides. Time estimated by radar.
Flash flooding occurred in Ames due to repeated rounds of heavy rainfall from slow moving thunderstorms. State Route 10 was closed at Old Sharon Road in Ames due to high water.
Flash flooding occurred along West Ames Road in Ames between White Road and Bueld Road. The Canajoharie Creek overspread its banks due to heavy rainfall from repeated rounds of slow moving thunderstorms. A large hole was formed in the roadway as a result of the flooding.
An emergency manager reported that widespread flooding along Brimestone Creek occurred. West Ames Road and Old Sharon Road, between Route 10 and Latimer and Shunk Roads, were closed due to flooding.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.
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.
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