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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincoln Heights, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Lincoln Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lincoln Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lincoln Heights itself.

The rest sit in Mansfield (9), Madison Township (7), Franklin Township (1), Mifflin Township (1).

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

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18
Reported cameras nearby
#137
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.3%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 18 reported cameras around Lincoln Heights, 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 Lincoln Heights

No new reports near Lincoln Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Lincoln Heights

The readers mapped around Lincoln Heights break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • North Main Street — 4 readers
  • Olivesburg Road — 3 readers
  • Grace Street — 3 readers
  • US 30 — 3 readers
  • Piper Road — 2 readers
  • East Longview Avenue — 1 reader
  • Park Avenue East — 1 reader
  • Ashland Road — 1 reader

Lincoln Heights in the Richland County picture

Richland County has 70 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 125,138 residents and 2,106 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.

Camera activity around Lincoln Heights, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lincoln Heights. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.

What’s watching Lincoln Heights

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

What you can do in Lincoln Heights

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 Lincoln Heights

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