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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wintersville, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Wintersville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wintersville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Wintersville itself.

The rest sit in Steubenville (4), Cross Creek Township (3).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
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of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 10 reported cameras around Wintersville, 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 Wintersville
+0 this week +5 last 30 days −2 removed
  • Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Wintersville

The readers mapped around Wintersville break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • John Scott Highway — 2 readers
  • Old US 22 — 2 readers
  • Two Ridge Road — 2 readers
  • Chipotlane — 1 reader
  • Lovers Lane — 1 reader
  • Bantam Ridge Road — 1 reader
  • Cadiz Road — 1 reader

Wintersville OH PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wintersville OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 59 other agencies.

Wintersville in the Jefferson County picture

Jefferson County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #871 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 64,855 residents and 1,297 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 1 street.

Camera activity around Wintersville, last 30 days

7 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Wintersville. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.

What’s watching Wintersville

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

The latest around Wintersville

What you can do in Wintersville

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 Wintersville

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