Flock & ALPR Cameras in Orchard Homes, Montana
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Orchard Homes — 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 Orchard Homes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Orchard Homes itself.
The rest sit in Missoula (10).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (5). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Orchard Homes
The readers mapped around Orchard Homes break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Southgate Mall Access Road — 2 readers
- Mary Avenue — 2 readers
- England Boulevard — 2 readers
- American Way — 1 reader
- North Reserve Street — 1 reader
- Missoula — 1 reader
Orchard Homes in the Missoula County picture
Missoula County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,868 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 119,639 residents and 4,545 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 79.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4).
What’s watching Orchard Homes
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 Orchard Homes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Orchard Homes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Orchard Homes
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 Orchard Homes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).