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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kings Grant, North Carolina

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Kings Grant — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kings Grant, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Kings Grant itself.

The rest sit in Wilmington (4).

3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
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of North Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Kings Grant, North Carolina
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Kings Grant

No new reports near Kings Grant 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 Kings Grant

The readers mapped around Kings Grant break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • Thrasher Court — 1 reader
  • New Centre Drive — 1 reader
  • South College Road — 1 reader
  • Michael Jordan Highway — 1 reader
  • Grouse Court — 1 reader

Kings Grant in the New Hanover County picture

New Hanover County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,326 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 231,214 residents and 1,325 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).

What’s watching Kings Grant

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 Kings Grant — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kings Grant (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Kings Grant

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.

Cameras near Kings Grant

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).