Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Cross Lanes — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cross Lanes, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Cross Lanes itself.
The rest sit in Nitro (7).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cross Lanes
The readers mapped around Cross Lanes break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Nitro Boulevard — 4 readers
- Pine Terrace — 2 readers
- Lakeview Drive — 1 reader
- I 64 — 1 reader
Cross Lanes in the Kanawha County picture
Kanawha County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,874 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 178,198 residents and 4,358 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 72.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Cross Lanes, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cross Lanes. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Cross Lanes
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 Cross Lanes — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cross Lanes (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cross Lanes
What you can do in Cross Lanes
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 Cross Lanes
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).