Flock & ALPR Cameras in Powderly, Texas
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Powderly — 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 Powderly, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Powderly itself.
The rest sit in Paris (2).
8 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 Powderly in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Powderly
The readers mapped around Powderly break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- North US Highway 271 — 4 readers
- FM 1499 — 1 reader
- County Road 44080 — 1 reader
- County Road 35980 — 1 reader
- County Road 45050 — 1 reader
- Caviness Road — 1 reader
- FM 197 — 1 reader
Powderly in the Lamar County picture
Lamar County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #81 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 3.7% nationally. That’s across 50,421 residents and 1,650 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
What’s watching Powderly
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 Powderly — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Powderly (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Powderly
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 Powderly
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).