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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina

Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Norman of Catawba — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Norman of Catawba, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Lake Norman of Catawba itself.

The rest sit in Mooresville (1), Sherrills Ford (1).

4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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7
Reported cameras nearby
#153
of 375 North Carolina cities tracked
0.2%
of North Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 7 reported cameras around Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Lake Norman of Catawba

No new reports near Lake Norman of Catawba in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Lake Norman of Catawba

The readers mapped around Lake Norman of Catawba break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Brawley School Road — 3 readers
  • River Highway — 1 reader
  • Perth Road — 1 reader
  • East NC 150 Highway — 1 reader
  • Sherrills Ford Road — 1 reader

Lake Norman of Catawba in the Catawba County picture

Catawba County has 51 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #980 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 162,051 residents and 1,994 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

Camera activity around Lake Norman of Catawba, last 30 days

1 removed in our hourly change log for Lake Norman of Catawba. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Lake Norman of Catawba

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

What you can do in Lake Norman of Catawba

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 Lake Norman of Catawba

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