Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gatesville, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Gatesville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gatesville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Gatesville itself.
The rest sit in Sunbury (4), Suffolk (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 Gatesville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gatesville
The readers mapped around Gatesville break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- NC 32 — 2 readers
- US 158 — 2 readers
- NC 37 — 1 reader
- Whaleyville Boulevard — 1 reader
Gatesville in the Gates County picture
Gates County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #283 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.2% nationally. That’s across 10,437 residents and 825 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 47.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Gatesville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gatesville. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Gatesville
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 Gatesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gatesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Gatesville
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 Gatesville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).