Where is Camp Lehigh?
As noted previously, Camp Lehigh has been assigned a retroactive location of Virginia, but when that happened is hard to pin down-- the earliest citation on the Marvel Comics Wiki is Captain America: White in 2008, which is recent enough that I'm surprised that the MCU location of New Jersey didn't take precedence when the 2011 movie came out. Was it in fact established earlier? More notes follow:
-nothing in the various Handbooks of the Marvel Universe
-nor any issues of What If?, which I thought might have added a little detail like that to the scene-setting portion at the beginning of a Cap issue
-various officers stationed at Camp Lehigh are shown to live in NYC
-travel between the camp and NYC is frequent and speedy. Bucky's class visits New York Harbor on a lark
-BUT Captain America Comics 006 places Camp Lehigh within a similar distance of San Francisco, leading me to conclude that it's the Brigadoon of army camps, popping up where it's needed.
At this point I guess it's just a matter of watching out for the word "Virginia" to be explicitly written next to the words "Camp Lehigh" because that's all we can really hold onto.
EDIT: A late addition to the fun confusion: Captain America Comics 009 introduces "Lehigh City" as the nearby urban area that Cap and Bucky visit and it's clearly one of your classic NYC stand-ins, down to the lions on the Lehigh Public Library:
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