Flock & ALPR Cameras in Parkersburg, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Parkersburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Parkersburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Parkersburg
The readers mapped around Parkersburg break down as 12 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Memorial Bridge — 9 readers
- Garfield Avenue — 1 reader
- 30th Street — 1 reader
- 21st Avenue — 1 reader
- Ann Street — 1 reader
- WV 14 — 1 reader
- West Virginia Route 95 — 1 reader
- Murdoch Avenue — 1 reader
- East 7th Street — 1 reader
- WV 95 — 1 reader
- Staunton Avenue — 1 reader
- Camden Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Parkersburg — all on the live map above.
Parkersburg 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 14 traffic.
What’s watching Parkersburg
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 Parkersburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Parkersburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Parkersburg
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 Parkersburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).