Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elizabethton, Tennessee
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Elizabethton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elizabethton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Elizabethton itself.
The rest sit in Hampton (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1), Lowes (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elizabethton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elizabethton
The readers mapped around Elizabethton break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowes, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Patriot Drive — 3 readers
- West Elk Avenue — 2 readers
- Veterans Memorial Parkway — 2 readers
- North Lynn Avenue — 1 reader
- Broad Street — 1 reader
- Stony Creek Road — 1 reader
- Watauga Road — 1 reader
- Overmountain Drive — 1 reader
- Gap Creek Road — 1 reader
- Carter County — 1 reader
- Old Bristol Highway — 1 reader
- US 19E;US 321;SR 67 — 1 reader
Elizabethton TN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elizabethton TN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Elizabethton in the Carter County picture
Carter County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #526 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.6% nationally. That’s across 56,462 residents and 1,001 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Lowes (1), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Elizabethton
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 Elizabethton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elizabethton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elizabethton
What you can do in Elizabethton
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 Elizabethton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).