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Ames is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cloud County, Kansas — not the Iowa city of the same name.

Ames is located on the south side of the Republican River in Shirley Township, about 3 miles southwest of Clyde and 12 miles east of Concordia, the county seat, next to state highway K-9.

Ames was founded in 1883, although one of its first buildings, the First Union Church of Ames, was erected in 1872.

Ames's post office was moved from nearby Shirley on May 28, 1878, with George Clark as first postmaster, and it stayed open until January 30, 1993.

In 1910 Ames was a Missouri Pacific Railroad station with a money order post office, express and telegraph service, and a population of 120.

Ames once had one of the most extensive grain elevators west of the Mississippi River, with a capacity of 14,000 bushels.

The 2020 census counted 33 people in Ames living in 14 households, and the CDP's population was 100% white in that count.

Today Ames is described as an extinct townsite, though it still has several homes, an operating grain business, silos and an old school, and is served by the Clifton-Clyde USD 224 school district.