[2] The town is named after Dugald Cameron, an early settler and land agent of the Pulteney Estate.

[3] The Town of Cameron is centrally located in the county, west of the City of Corning.

Parts of Cameron were lost on the founding of the towns of Thurston (1844) and Rathbone (1856).

The line, recently owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway, with trains operated by NS and Canadian Pacific (the latter under haulage arrangements), was destroyed by Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and had to be rebuilt afterward.

The racial makeup of the town was 92.7% White, 0.44% African American, 1.56% Hispanic or Latino, and 1.45% from other unspecified races.