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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Archbold, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Archbold — 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 Archbold, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Archbold itself.

The rest sit in Adams Township (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#386
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.1%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 4 reported cameras around Archbold, Ohio
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 Archbold

No new reports near Archbold in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Archbold

The readers mapped around Archbold break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • North Defiance Street — 1 reader
  • SR 66 — 1 reader
  • Domersville Road — 1 reader
  • SR 2 — 1 reader

Archbold OH PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Archbold OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 36 other agencies.

Archbold in the Fulton County picture

Fulton County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,072 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 42,434 residents and 929 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 38.1% of counties nationally.

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

What’s watching Archbold

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

What you can do in Archbold

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 Archbold

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