Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wheeling, West Virginia
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Wheeling — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wheeling, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Wheeling itself.
The rest sit in Clearview (1), Triadelphia (1).
2 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 Wheeling 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 Wheeling
The readers mapped around Wheeling break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Chapline Street — 3 readers
- Cabela Drive — 2 readers
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge — 1 reader
- Market Street — 1 reader
- Clearview Avenue — 1 reader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway — 1 reader
- Warwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Fink Street — 1 reader
- Chapel Hill Road — 1 reader
Wheeling in the Ohio County picture
Ohio County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,504 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 41,904 residents and 690 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.
Camera activity around Wheeling, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Wheeling. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Wheeling
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 Wheeling — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wheeling (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wheeling
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wheeling, WV
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Wheeling, WV
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Wheeling, WV
What you can do in Wheeling
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 Wheeling
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).