Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cold Spring, Minnesota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Cold Spring — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cold Spring, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cold Spring itself.
The rest sit in Collegeville Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cold Spring in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cold Spring
The readers mapped around Cold Spring break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- Big Fish Lake Road — 1 reader
Cold Spring in the Stearns County picture
Stearns County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,769 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 159,358 residents and 3,254 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 61% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
Camera activity around Cold Spring, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cold Spring. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Cold Spring
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 Cold Spring — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cold Spring (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cold Spring
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 Cold Spring
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).