Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wharton, Texas
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Wharton — 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 Wharton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Wharton itself.
The rest sit in Hungerford (1).
2 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 Wharton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wharton
The readers mapped around Wharton break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Wharton — 3 readers
- FM 102 — 2 readers
- US 59 Business;TX 60 — 1 reader
- US 59 Business — 1 reader
- TX 60 — 1 reader
- Bay City Highway — 1 reader
- US 59 — 1 reader
- US Highway 59 — 1 reader
- East Boling Highway — 1 reader
- Lees Lane — 1 reader
- South Richmond Road — 1 reader
- South Alabama Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Wharton — all on the live map above.
Wharton PD TX and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wharton PD TX appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Wharton in the Wharton County picture
Wharton County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #440 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.5% nationally. That’s across 41,651 residents and 2,958 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 50.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
What’s watching Wharton
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 Wharton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wharton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wharton
What you can do in Wharton
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 Wharton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).