Flock & ALPR Cameras in Nelsonville, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Nelsonville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Nelsonville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Nelsonville itself.
The rest sit in New Straitsville (1), York Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Athens County Sheriff's Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Nelsonville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 11:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Nelsonville
The readers mapped around Nelsonville break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Nelsonville Bypass — 1 reader
- Clark Street — 1 reader
Nelsonville in the Athens County picture
Athens County has 24 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #757 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 61,573 residents and 1,744 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Nelsonville, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Nelsonville. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Nelsonville
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 Nelsonville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Nelsonville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Nelsonville
- Nelsonville's general fund in the red for August, council preserves historic mosaic
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Nelsonville, OH
What you can do in Nelsonville
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 Nelsonville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).