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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wadesboro, North Carolina

Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Wadesboro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wadesboro, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Wadesboro itself.

The rest sit in Lilesville (2).

1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.

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

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16
Reported cameras nearby
#62
of 375 North Carolina cities tracked
0.4%
of North Carolina’s reported cameras
Live camera map 16 reported cameras around Wadesboro, North Carolina
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Wadesboro

No new reports near Wadesboro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Wadesboro

The readers mapped around Wadesboro break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Morven Road — 2 readers
  • Orchard Street — 2 readers
  • East Caswell Street — 1 reader
  • US 52 — 1 reader
  • NC 742 South — 1 reader
  • North Greene Street — 1 reader
  • Smith Street — 1 reader
  • Arbor Street — 1 reader
  • South Cowan Street — 1 reader
  • West Wall Street — 1 reader
  • Pecan Street — 1 reader
  • Sikes Avenue — 1 reader

+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Wadesboro — all on the live map above.

Wadesboro NC PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wadesboro NC PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 31 other agencies.

Wadesboro in the Anson County picture

Anson County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #704 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 21,903 residents and 1,264 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 52.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.

Camera activity around Wadesboro, last 30 days

6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wadesboro. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.

What’s watching Wadesboro

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

The latest around Wadesboro

What you can do in Wadesboro

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 Wadesboro

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