Ames Municipal Cemetery in Ames, Iowa

Ames Municipal Cemetery is a municipal cemetery near Ames, Story County, Iowa. It lies about 0.8 mi west of Ames. The grounds sit at about 919 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 14 notable people buried here, including Ada Hayden, Fred Torrey and Joseph Lancaster Budd. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1999508. The nearest other listed cemetery is Bloomington Cemetery, about 1.5 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Adams Funeral Home in Ames, about 0.5 mi away. It is one of 57 cemeteries we list in Story County, and 32 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Ames. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 3 scientists, 2 artists, 1 football player.

• Ada Hayden1884-1950
  American botanist, educator, curator and preservationist
• Fred Torrey1884-1967
  American sculptor
• Joseph Lancaster Budd1835-1904
  American horticulturist
• Roy Walter Simonson1908-2008
  American soil scientist
• Hugo Otopalik1890-1953
  American football player
• Anna C. Trible
  Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
• Edwin Raymond Smith1879-1965
  Dr. phil. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1911
• Etta Mae Budd1863-1952
  American artist and teacher
• George W. Beran1928-2025
  American veterinary epidemiologist
• Harry John Svec1918-2006
  American chemist
• Henry Ness1874-1954
  American entomologist
• Lucian Quincy Hoggatt1815-1896
  American politician

People whose Wikidata entry gives Ames Municipal Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• Bloomington Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Cory Family Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Family cemetery

  1.9 mi
• Sunday Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  1.9 mi
• College Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  2.5 mi
• Iowa State University Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  2.5 mi
• Story Memorial Gardens Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Memorial park

  2.7 mi
• Arrasmith Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  3.4 mi
• Ontario Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  3.8 mi
• McMichael Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  3.8 mi
• Pleasant Grove Cemetery

  Ames, IA
  Cemetery

  5.7 mi

• Adams Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Ames · (515) 232-5121
  0.5 mi
• Ames Monument & Cremation Center

  Cremation provider · Ames · (515) 233-3449
  0.6 mi
• Grandon Funeral & Cremation

  Cremation provider · Ames · (515) 292-2273
  0.8 mi
• Stevens Memorial Chapel

  Funeral chapel · Ames · (515) 232-5473
  1.5 mi
• Cremation Center of Iowa

  Cremation provider · Ames · (515) 890-1273
  6.7 mi
• Nevada Monument Co

  Monument dealer · Nevada · (515) 382-2442
  7.3 mi

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