Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Wilkesboro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wilkesboro, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Wilkesboro itself.
The rest sit in North Wilkesboro (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Wilkesboro in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wilkesboro
The readers mapped around Wilkesboro break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West D Street — 2 readers
- Watson Brame Expressway — 1 reader
- NC 268 — 1 reader
Wilkesboro NC PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wilkesboro NC PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has logged 17 plate-database searches, has captured 191,699 vehicle records. Its network connects to 215 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Aberdeen NC PD, Ahoskie NC PD, Alexander County NC SO, Angier NC PD, Apex NC PD, Asheville NC PD, Avery County NC SO, Banner Elk NC PD.
Wilkesboro in the Wilkes County picture
Wilkes County has 18 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,101 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 65,983 residents and 2,776 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 54.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Wilkesboro
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 Wilkesboro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wilkesboro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wilkesboro
What you can do in Wilkesboro
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Wilkesboro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).