Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bent Creek, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Bent Creek — 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 Bent Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bent Creek itself.
The rest sit in Asheville (9), Candler (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). 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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bent Creek
The readers mapped around Bent Creek break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Smokey Park Highway — 8 readers
- Pisgah Highway — 1 reader
- Monte Vista Road — 1 reader
- Brevard Road — 1 reader
- Blue Ridge Parkway — 1 reader
Bent Creek in the Buncombe County picture
Buncombe County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,115 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 271,790 residents and 3,290 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Bent Creek, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bent Creek. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Bent Creek
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 Bent Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bent Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bent Creek
What you can do in Bent Creek
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 Bent Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).