Flock & ALPR Cameras in Silver Lake, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Silver Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Silver Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Silver Lake itself.
The rest sit in Wilmington (1).
3 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 Silver Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Silver Lake
The readers mapped around Silver Lake break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Honeybee Lane — 1 reader
- South College Road — 1 reader
- Prior Drive — 1 reader
- Carolina Beach Road — 1 reader
- River Road — 1 reader
Silver Lake 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Silver Lake, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Silver Lake. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Silver Lake
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 Silver Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Silver Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Silver Lake
What you can do in Silver Lake
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 Silver Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).