Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burton, South Carolina
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Burton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Burton itself.
The rest sit in Beaufort (14), Port Royal (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Burton
The readers mapped around Burton break down as 15 Flock Safety, 2 Rekoe. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Robert Smalls Parkway — 5 readers
- Burton Hill Road — 2 readers
- Parris Island Gateway — 2 readers
- Boundary Street — 2 readers
- Grober Hill Road — 2 readers
- Lowes Access Road — 1 reader
- Trask Parkway — 1 reader
- Parker Drive — 1 reader
- Beaufort — 1 reader
Burton in the Beaufort County picture
Beaufort County has 77 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #726 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 192,123 residents and 2,344 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
Camera activity around Burton, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Burton. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Burton
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 Burton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Burton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Burton, SC
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Burton, SC
What you can do in Burton
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 Burton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).