Flock & ALPR Cameras in Simonton Lake, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Simonton Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Simonton Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Simonton Lake itself.
The rest sit in Elkhart (7).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Simonton Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Simonton Lake
The readers mapped around Simonton Lake break down as 8 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- County Road 6 West — 4 readers
- Cassopolis Street — 3 readers
- County Road 6 — 3 readers
- County Road 6 East — 1 reader
- County Road 109 — 1 reader
- Oakwood Avenue — 1 reader
Simonton Lake in the Elkhart County picture
Elkhart County has 101 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #540 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 206,868 residents and 1,373 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Simonton Lake
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 Simonton Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Simonton Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Simonton Lake
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Simonton Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).