Cameron, Missouri Cameron, Missouri Olde Town Cameron Olde Town Cameron Location of Cameron, Missouri Location of Cameron, Missouri State Missouri Website City of Cameron Joseph Railroad in the "Cameron Cutoff" assembled the Hannibal Bridge athwart the Missouri River resulting in Kansas City, Missouri becoming the biggest town/city in the region.
Cameron is a town/city in Clinton and De - Kalb counties in the U.S.
State of Missouri.
The Clinton County portion of Cameron is part of the Kansas City, MO KS Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the De - Kalb County portion is part of the St.
Joseph Railroad (a line whose framers included the father of Mark Twain and which was to bring the first mail of the Pony Express) proposed coming through the area, the line said the region around Somerville was too steep for the rail so he platted a new improve 1.5 miles to the west in what is now "Olde Towne" Cameron.
The town platted in 1855 was titled for the maiden name of his wife Malinda Cameron. Mc - Corkle Park is still Cameron's centerpiece park.
Joseph (which at the time was the farthest west barns connected to the chief rail network) to cross the Missouri River.
Kansas City, Missouri was able to convince the barns to bypass its rivals in St.
Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas and Parkville, Missouri to problematic the "Cameron Branch" of the barns .
The assembly of the Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City (which was to beat Omaha in any bids to cross the Missouri) was to subjugation that town/city into being the dominant town/city in the region.
Cameron was to appreciate a surge in its populace because of the cutoff with its populace growing from 100 in 1859 to 3,000 by 1881.
Cameron was a college town from 1883 until 1930.
Founded as the Cameron Institute it became Missouri Wesleyan College directed by the Methodist Church until 1930.
Cameron attained eminence in the 1980s and 1990s after Cameron region resident Bob F.
Griffin served more than 15 years as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives the longest of any representative.
Among the pork barrel legislation he was to bring to the town is the Missouri Veterans Home and the Western Missouri Correctional Center which is the city's biggest employer with 700 employees.
A street in the town is titled "Bob Griffin Road," though the road remains (as of June 2016) unpaved for most of its length.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.30 square miles (16.32 km2), of which 6.04 square miles (15.64 km2) is territory and 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2) is water. This region includes the initial olde town center, Cameron High School and Veterans Home.
The region north of the street in De - Kalb includes the Crossroads Correctional Center and Western Missouri Correctional Center, and the shopping centers next to U.S.
In addition portions of the improve stretch east to the Caldwell County, Missouri line.
The north-south-east division creates an unusual street grid naming fitness where some streets in the northern part of Cameron in De - Kalb follow that county's naming structure of Southeast Rogers Road, Southeast Summit Road, Southeast Pence Road, etc.
While roads in the south of Cameron in northern Clinton County have road names of Northeast 358th Street, Northeast 348th Street, etc.
These latter street names and directions represent a continuation of the street fitness for Kansas City.
With Caldwell County on the east side of Cameron, that means that street name extensions in Caldwell County on the far east side have a prefix of Northwest such as Northwest Old Highway 36.
In one instance just outside the town/city limits Southeast Oregon Road in Dekalb County turns into Northwest Oregon Road in Caldwell County when heading east out of Cameron.
Climate data for Cameron, Missouri As of the census of 2010, there were 9,933 citizens , 2,605 homeholds, and 1,562 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.9% White, 14.8% African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 0.3% from other competitions, and 1.0% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,605 homeholds of which 33.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 42.6% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.0% were non-families.
35.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.04.
The median age in the town/city was 37.4 years.
17.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 36.2% were from 25 to 44; 24% were from 45 to 64; and 13.5% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 8,312 citizens , 2,263 homeholds, and 1,434 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 84.90% White, 12.64% African American, 0.60% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.25% from other competitions, and 1.30% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,263 homeholds out of which 33.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.3% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.6% were non-families.
32.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.39 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 18.5% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 40.2% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,136, and the median income for a family was $40,540.
About 9.8% of families and 12.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 19.2% of those age 65 or over.
"Monthly Averages for Cameron, MO".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Cameron Historic maps of Cameron in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Clinton County, Missouri, United States Municipalities and communities of De - Kalb County, Missouri, United States
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