Ames Kansas Map

About Ames, Kansas

Ames is a locality in Cloud County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 33. The population density is 29.9 people per km². Ames is located at 39.5694°N, 97.4420°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66901.

Ames occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches in an unbroken, pale-gold line that seems to swallow the sky. It lies 49.6 miles northwest of Junction City, KS (from Junction City, KS: bearing 319°T), and is situated 11.7 miles east of Concordia. The Republican River carves a deliberate path through the earth less than a mile away, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that shiver whenever the persistent prairie wind exhales. To the west, the Twin Mounds rise six miles off like ancient, slumbering sentinels against the vastness of the fields, grounding a landscape that otherwise feels as though it might drift into the clouds. The quality of light here at dusk is heavy and honeyed, thickening the air until the shadows of the tallgrass blur into the deep violet of the coming night.

Ames emerged from the necessity of the rail and the promise of the soil, serving as a steady anchor for the families who have long tended the surrounding wheat fields. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a cycle of labor that demands a patient, quiet endurance from those who make their lives in these furrows. While the Concordia Sports Complex provides a place for recreation ten miles away, the daily pulse of the people is dictated by the slow turning of the seasons and the maintenance of their own quiet traditions. History here is not found in grand monuments but in the weathered grain elevators and the sturdy, unadorned storefronts that have seen generations of farmers pass through, each leaving a faint, indelible mark upon the quiet grit of the dirt roads.

About This Ames Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ames, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.569444, -97.441979. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Ames includes the ZIP code (66901), telephone area code (913), county seat of Cloud County (Concordia), and school district assignment (Clifton-Clyde Unified School District 224).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.