Census Data for Ames
As far as we can tell, Ames has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Ames, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Ruma
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Ruma is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruma
- Prairie du Rocher
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Red Bud
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Evansville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Fults
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Baldwin
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Hecker
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Maeystown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sainte Genevieve
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Ellis Grove
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bloomsdale
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Waterloo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
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- New Athens
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- New Athens is located in Saint Clair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Athens
- Lenzburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Valmeyer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Monroe County ...
Ames is located in Monroe County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Monroe County.
Miscellaneous Information for Ames ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Monroe County or the community of Ames:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Ames:
- GNIS ID for Ames: 403486
- GNIS ID for Monroe County: 1784865
- GNIS ID for State of Illinois: 1779784
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 17 (Illinois)
- County Code: 133 (Monroe County)
- Place Code: 01335 (Ames)
- State & County Code: 17/133 (Illinois / Monroe County)
- State & Place Code: 17/01335 (Illinois / Ames)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Ames is located in Census Region #2 (the Midwest Region) and Division #3 (the East North-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Ames.
Footnotes ...
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