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West Virginia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mineral Wells, West Virginia

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Mineral Wells — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mineral Wells, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mineral Wells itself.

The rest sit in Parkersburg (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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2
Reported cameras nearby
#43
of 61 West Virginia cities tracked
0.8%
of West Virginia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Mineral Wells, West Virginia
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Mineral Wells

No new reports near Mineral Wells in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Mineral Wells

The readers mapped around Mineral Wells break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Nov 2025.

  • Walton Drive — 2 readers

Mineral Wells in the Wood County picture

Wood County has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #987 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 83,829 residents and 2,080 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 38.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.

What’s watching Mineral Wells

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 Mineral Wells — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mineral Wells (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Mineral Wells

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.

Cameras near Mineral Wells

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).