Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincolnton, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Lincolnton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lincolnton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Lincolnton itself.
The rest sit in High Shoals (1).
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lincolnton 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 Lincolnton
The readers mapped around Lincolnton break down as 20 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Main Street — 4 readers
- Court Square Drive — 2 readers
- Reepsville Road — 2 readers
- Roper Drive — 1 reader
- West State Highway 27 — 1 reader
- East Water Street — 1 reader
- Gastonia Highway — 1 reader
- Salem Church Road — 1 reader
- Madison Street — 1 reader
- Riverside Drive — 1 reader
- Maiden Highway — 1 reader
- NC 150 — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Lincolnton — all on the live map above.
Lincolnton in the Lincoln County picture
Lincoln County has 42 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #599 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 90,359 residents and 1,287 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Lincolnton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lincolnton. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Lincolnton
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 Lincolnton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lincolnton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lincolnton
What you can do in Lincolnton
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.
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Cameras near Lincolnton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).