Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Cambridge, OH

Cambridge is a city in southeastern Ohio and the county seat of Guernsey County, first settled in 1798 and incorporated in 1837, in the foothills of the Appalachian Plateau.

The federally built National Road — America's first great federal highway — reached Cambridge in 1828, and the area is still noted for its unusual S-shaped bridges built for the road, designed to cross creeks at a safer angle.

Guernsey County itself was named for the many settlers who emigrated from the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel.

Cambridge is famous among collectors as a glassmaking town: it was home to the Cambridge Glass Company, Boyd Glass, and Mosser Glass, whose pressed-glass tableware is prized by collectors nationwide.

Cambridge had a population of 10,089 at the 2020 census and is the principal city of the Cambridge micropolitan area.

According to Census Bureau QuickFacts, Cambridge has about 5,017 households, but only about 49% of its homes are owner-occupied — well below the national average — with an average of fewer than two people per household.

Cambridge sits at a major crossroads where Interstate 70 and Interstate 77 intersect just outside the city, making it a natural stopping point between Columbus, Pittsburgh, and the Ohio River.

The city lies along Wills Creek, and its downtown Wheeling Avenue Historic District preserves the commercial blocks built up during the National Road and railroad eras; the first railroad arrived in 1854.

Cambridge High School serves the city's students as part of the Cambridge City School District, alongside a primary school, an intermediate school, and a middle school.

The Cambridge area suffered massive flooding in late June 1998, one of the most destructive natural disasters in the city's modern history.