Flock & ALPR Cameras in Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Big Stone Gap — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Big Stone Gap, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Big Stone Gap itself.
The rest sit in Big Stone Gap East (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Big Stone Gap in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Big Stone Gap
The readers mapped around Big Stone Gap break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Boulevard — 2 readers
- Powell Valley Road — 1 reader
- Gilley Avenue East — 1 reader
- Greenbelt Trail — 1 reader
- East 5th Street North — 1 reader
Big Stone Gap VA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Big Stone Gap VA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Big Stone Gap in the Wise County picture
Wise County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,178 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 35,727 residents and 1,963 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 62.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Big Stone Gap
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 Big Stone Gap — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Big Stone Gap (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Big Stone Gap
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 Big Stone Gap
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).