Flock & ALPR Cameras in Black Mountain, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Black Mountain — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Black Mountain, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Black Mountain itself.
The rest sit in Old Fort (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Black Mountain in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Black Mountain
The readers mapped around Black Mountain break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- NC 9 — 4 readers
- West State Street — 2 readers
- East State Street — 2 readers
- Catawba Avenue — 1 reader
- Bat Cave Road — 1 reader
Black Mountain NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Black Mountain NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 71 other agencies.
Black Mountain 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.
Camera activity around Black Mountain, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Black Mountain. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Black Mountain
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 Black Mountain — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Black Mountain (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Black Mountain
- Black Mountain candidates talk Flock, budget priorities, public safety
- On the agenda: Black Mountain Town Council Agenda Work Session & Special Meeting- 5:00 pm — Flock Camera (Sep 10)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Black Mountain, NC
What you can do in Black Mountain
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 Black Mountain
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).