Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cove Creek, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Cove Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cove Creek
The readers mapped around Cove Creek break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- I 40 — 2 readers
- Jonathan Creek Road — 1 reader
Cove Creek in the Haywood County picture
Haywood County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #878 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 62,432 residents and 2,041 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Cove 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 Cove Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cove Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cove 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 Cove Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).