Flock & ALPR Cameras in Banner Elk, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Banner Elk — 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 Banner Elk, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Banner Elk itself.
The rest sit in Sugar Mountain (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 Banner Elk in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Banner Elk
The readers mapped around Banner Elk break down as 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Oct 2025.
- NC Highway 105 South — 1 reader
- Tynecastle Highway — 1 reader
- Sugar Mountain Drive — 1 reader
Banner Elk NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Banner Elk NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Banner Elk in the Avery County picture
Avery County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #738 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 17,643 residents and 932 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 51.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic, 1 parking_entrance, 1 street.
What’s watching Banner Elk
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 Banner Elk — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Banner Elk (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Banner Elk
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 Banner Elk
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).