Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wardsville, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Wardsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wardsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Wardsville itself.
The rest sit in Jefferson City (1), Meta (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 Wardsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wardsville
The readers mapped around Wardsville break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- C. F. “Red” Whaley Expressway — 1 reader
- West 4th Street — 1 reader
- US 54 — 1 reader
Wardsville in the Cole County picture
Cole County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #842 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 76,924 residents and 1,091 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Wardsville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wardsville. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Wardsville
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 Wardsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wardsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wardsville
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 Wardsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).