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Arvada, Colorado

Hackberry HillBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 95 of the 1,924 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area.

95

drone flights crossed Hackberry Hill.

22

of them in October 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Hackberry Hill 95 times between 27 May 2026 and 1 November 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 1 November 2026.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Hackberry HillOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

20 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

8% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

16 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Hackberry Hill, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 2
  2. 14
  3. 22
  4. 14
  5. 20
  6. 22
  7. 1
May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26Nov 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 95 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service41%
  2. Other29%
  3. Training and testing8%
  4. Traffic and crashes7%
  5. Patrol support5%
  6. Assisting another agency5%
  7. Events1%
  8. Not stated1%
  9. Search1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20266:04 pmOther18 min0f6a482e
Thu 1 Oct 20267:11 pmAssisting another agency19 mine57a67c2
Mon 5 Oct 20268:43 pmOther13 min849a6403
Tue 6 Oct 20266:24 pmPatrol support12 minb85b2a35
Tue 6 Oct 20269:17 pmTraffic and crashes10 min36467363
Wed 7 Oct 20269:35 pmCall for service7 mind774f447
Sat 10 Oct 20262:27 pmCall for service10 min0c2eed16
Sat 10 Oct 20267:27 pmOther11 min340b2d3d
Sat 10 Oct 20267:59 pmCall for service12 min14049ea4
Sun 11 Oct 20265:35 pmOther11 min5bc224a9
Mon 12 Oct 20262:35 pmCall for service11 mine35c70d9
Sat 17 Oct 20262:19 pmCall for service20 mine606ee81
Fri 23 Oct 202611:00 pmOther20 minfc54cff3
Mon 26 Oct 20265:32 pmCall for service10 min9009163e
Mon 26 Oct 20267:10 pmCall for service18 mind06b9e48
Wed 28 Oct 20265:00 pmAssisting another agency14 min0e030b99
Thu 29 Oct 20265:47 pmPatrol support6 minc7272a2f
Fri 30 Oct 20266:34 pmOther11 min65fa5cf2
Fri 30 Oct 20267:23 pmOther15 min92164a16
Fri 30 Oct 20269:01 pmCall for service15 min861c706e
Sat 31 Oct 20261:41 pmOther12 min11793d2e
Sat 31 Oct 20269:59 pmCall for service12 minda375689

All 22 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Hackberry Hill" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Arvada (Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Arvada. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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