Cameron is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in eastern
Adams Township,
Monroe County,
Ohio
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,
United States
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. It has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
with the
ZIP code 43914.
It lies along
State Route 78.
Cameron was originally called Jamestown, and under the latter name was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1838.
The present name is a transfer from
Cameron, West Virginia.
References
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Ohio
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