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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mineral Wells, Texas

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Mineral Wells — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mineral Wells, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Mineral Wells itself.

The rest sit in Cool (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#470
of 814 Texas cities tracked
0.1%
of Texas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Mineral Wells, Texas
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 Mineral Wells

No new reports near Mineral Wells in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Mineral Wells

The readers mapped around Mineral Wells break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • US Highway 180 West — 1 reader
  • Mineral Wells Highway — 1 reader
  • North US Highway 281 — 1 reader
  • South Oak Avenue — 1 reader
  • Highway 180 East — 1 reader

Mineral Wells TX PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mineral Wells TX PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.

Mineral Wells in the Palo Pinto County picture

Palo Pinto County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,895 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 28,920 residents and 2,459 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 93.2% of counties nationally.

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

What’s watching Mineral Wells

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

What you can do in Mineral Wells

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 Mineral Wells

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