Ontario, Iowa

Ontario is a community within the corporate limits of the city of Ames, in Story County, Iowa, United States.

[1] The first settlement in the area was New Philadelphia laid out in 1855 on the western edge of Story County just northwest of Iowa State College (now Iowa State University).

It wasn't long before Ontario, strategically situated by the rail line, swallowed up New Philadelphia.

[3][4] The community was named after Ontario, Ohio, the native hometown of a first settler, Hiram Scott.

[5] Ontario failed to incorporate several times and was ultimately annexed by Ames in 1962.