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Ames New York Map

Explore Ames, New York, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Ames, New York

How to Use This Ames, New York Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ames, New York. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of New York or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ames.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Ames
State	New York (NY)
County	Montgomery County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	42.837574
Longitude	-74.60153
Population	138
Density	406.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	13317
Area Code	315
County Seat	Fonda
School District	Canajoharie Central School District

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About Ames, New York

Ames is a locality in Montgomery County, New York, United States. It is a small community with a population of 138. The population density is 406.7 people per km². Ames is located at 42.8376°N, 74.6015°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Ames is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 13317.

Ames emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of structures defined primarily by the persistent, winding path of Brimstone Creek, which carves a narrow corridor through the earth nearby. It lies 19.8 miles southwest of Gloversville, NY (from Gloversville, NY: bearing 221°T), and is situated 6.5 miles south of Minden. The land surrounding Ames maintains a stoic, agrarian composure, where the horizon is dominated not by jagged peaks, but by the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains visible on the clearest days. To the north, the ground settles into the basin of Wintergreen Flats, while the proximity of Clausen Pond offers a singular, reflective stillness in the landscape. The quality of light here often possesses a pale, autumnal clarity, casting long shadows across the fields that stretch toward the Village Of Sharon Springs Park Land, where the earth holds a quiet, unbothered weight.

Ames retains a character forged by the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural cycles and the remnants of early settlement patterns that favored the fertile, inland soil over the more frantic development of larger corridors. The local economy persists in a quiet dialogue with the land, echoing a history of self-sufficiency that ignores the reach of modern manufacturing hubs. A traveler might find the nearby descent of Canajoharie Falls a momentary disruption to the otherwise flat, persistent rhythms of the rural day, where the sound of moving water remains the most consistent temporal marker. Life in Ames follows the turning of the seasons, moving with a steady, muted gravity that is felt in the texture of the soil and the silence of the woods that persist at the edge of every pasture.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Village of Canajoharie Land (Local Park) — 3.4 mi, 033° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 4.7 mi, 024° NE
New York State Lands (State Recreation Area) — 4.7 mi, 009° N
Erie Canal (State Recreation Area) — 4.8 mi, 008° N
Riverfront Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 013° N
Poseidon statue (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 017° N
Arkell Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 017° N
Grave of Henry Seeber (Monument) — 5.4 mi, 282° W
Honey Hill State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 203° SW
Cherry Valley State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 226° SW
Canal Street Studio (Gallery) — 6.8 mi, 350° N
Fort Plain Museum and Historical Park (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 348° N
Cherry Valley Massacre Monument (Monument) — 8.4 mi, 249° W
The Point (Viewpoint) — 11.7 mi, 159° S
Glimmerglass State Park (State Park) — 13.4 mi, 255° W
Richmondville Service Memorial (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 172° S
Gobbler's Knob Family Fun Park (Attraction) — 14.7 mi, 139° SE
Fulton County Jail (historic) (Historic Castle / Fort) — 16.3 mi, 046° NE
Battleground (Registered Battlefield) — 16.6 mi, 042° NE
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site (Historic Ruins) — 17.4 mi, 066° NE
Johnstown Movieplex (Cinema) — 17.4 mi, 045° NE
Fenimore Art Museum (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 243° SW
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 18.9 mi, 240° SW
Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 240° SW
Little Falls Canal Aqueduct (Historic Ruins) — 19.1 mi, 317° NW
Peck Hill State Forest (State Wilderness) — 19.3 mi, 037° NE
Capitol Theatre (Theatre) — 19.4 mi, 273° W
Silver Lake Wilderness (State Wilderness) — 27.4 mi, 009° N

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