Flock & ALPR Cameras in Orchard Mesa, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Orchard Mesa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Orchard Mesa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Orchard Mesa itself.
The rest sit in Grand Junction (2), Clifton (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Orchard Mesa in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:03 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Orchard Mesa
The readers mapped around Orchard Mesa break down as 3 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 50;CO 141 — 1 reader
- Riverfront Trail - Corn Lake Section — 1 reader
- D Road — 1 reader
- Riverside Parkway — 1 reader
Orchard Mesa in the Mesa County picture
Mesa County has 43 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,097 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 157,316 residents and 3,934 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Orchard Mesa
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Orchard Mesa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Orchard Mesa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Orchard Mesa
What you can do in Orchard Mesa
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
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Cameras near Orchard Mesa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).