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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hibbing, Minnesota

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Hibbing — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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0.1%

of Minnesota’s reported cameras

Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Hibbing, Minnesota

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Hibbing

No new reports near Hibbing 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 Hibbing

The readers mapped around Hibbing break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.

Highway 169 West — 1 reader
11th Avenue West — 1 reader

Hibbing in the St. Louis County picture

St. Louis County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,889 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 200,056 residents and 8,115 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 82.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).

What’s watching Hibbing

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 Hibbing — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hibbing (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Hibbing

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 Hibbing

Eveleth (2) Coleraine (2) Grand Rapids (8) Cohasset (2)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).