Flock & ALPR Cameras in Creston, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Creston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Creston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Creston itself.
The rest sit in Afton (9).
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 Creston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:52 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Creston
The readers mapped around Creston break down as 10 Axis Communications, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- West Jefferson Street — 1 reader
- East Grand Street — 1 reader
- West Union Street — 1 reader
- North Douglas Street — 1 reader
- High School Drive — 1 reader
- US 169 — 1 reader
- East Filmore Street — 1 reader
- East Railroad Street — 1 reader
- East Kansas Street — 1 reader
- West Kansas Street — 1 reader
- US 34;US 169 — 1 reader
Creston in the Union County picture
Union County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #131 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.1% nationally. That’s across 12,038 residents and 812 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.
What’s watching Creston
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 Creston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Creston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Creston
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 Creston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).