Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ahtanum, Washington
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Ahtanum — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ahtanum, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Ahtanum itself.
The rest sit in Yakima (4), Tampico (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: City of Yakima (2). 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 Ahtanum in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ahtanum
The readers mapped around Ahtanum break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: City of Yakima. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Ahtanum Road — 3 readers
- South Fork Ahtanum Road — 2 readers
- West Washington Avenue — 1 reader
- South 64th Avenue — 1 reader
- North White Swan Road — 1 reader
- Stone Road — 1 reader
- North Cottonwood Road — 1 reader
- Fisk Road — 1 reader
Ahtanum in the Yakima County picture
Yakima County has 235 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #130 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6% nationally. That’s across 256,605 residents and 8,258 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Yakima (2).
Camera activity around Ahtanum, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ahtanum. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Ahtanum
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 Ahtanum — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ahtanum (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ahtanum
What you can do in Ahtanum
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.
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Cameras near Ahtanum
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).