Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cameron is a city in Clinton and DeKalb Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 8,312 at the 2000 census. The Clinton County portion of Cameron is part of the Kansas City, MO KS Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the DeKalb County portion is part of the St. Joseph, MO KS Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1854 Samuel McCorkle platted the town of Somerville. When the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad proposed coming through the area, the line said the area around Somerville was too steep for the rail so he platted a new community 1.5 miles to the west in what is now "Olde Towne" Cameron.