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Arvada, Colorado

Highlands, August 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 29 of the 1,924 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

29

drone flights crossed Highlands.

29

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Highlands 29 times between 3 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

29 of the 29 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
HighlandsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

24% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

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

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 29 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service38%
  2. Other17%
  3. Traffic and crashes14%
  4. Training and testing10%
  5. Patrol support7%
  6. Assisting another agency7%
  7. Events3%
  8. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 20262:57 pmTraining and testing11 min666c2281
Mon 3 Aug 20266:53 pmCall for service11 minf8c500d7
Tue 4 Aug 20266:45 pmCall for service10 min70520400
Tue 4 Aug 202610:29 pmPatrol support7 minbb5f76a4
Tue 4 Aug 202610:40 pmPatrol support14 minf0819e45
Wed 5 Aug 20263:01 pmCall for service18 min8d66fbf2
Wed 5 Aug 20267:52 pmCall for service20 minf658d1f3
Wed 5 Aug 202610:18 pmEvents13 min3320d2cb
Thu 6 Aug 20263:51 pmOther10 min1555b56b
Sun 9 Aug 20266:00 pmCall for service5 minb76401f6
Tue 11 Aug 20268:46 pmCall for service18 min7c2f6439
Tue 11 Aug 202610:59 pmTraffic and crashes3 min10722dcd
Wed 12 Aug 20261:42 pmOther19 min2fa61a7f
Thu 13 Aug 20267:52 pmNot stated17 mine81dcf29
Sat 15 Aug 20264:33 pmTraffic and crashes11 min4b3dc92d
Sat 15 Aug 20268:59 pmOther15 minf1569872
Sun 16 Aug 202610:42 pmOther19 mine961b141
Mon 17 Aug 20267:22 pmAssisting another agency12 mindd521e91
Tue 18 Aug 20262:37 pmTraining and testing6 mincb1e514a
Tue 18 Aug 20262:53 pmTraining and testing8 minacba7f1c
Tue 18 Aug 20269:04 pmCall for service10 minb6feb074
Wed 19 Aug 20262:00 pmCall for service18 min9663fb22
Thu 20 Aug 202610:42 pmCall for service13 mind1c69f28
Sun 23 Aug 202610:28 pmCall for service17 min17f994e6
Tue 25 Aug 20263:34 pmTraffic and crashes4 min83888aa0
Tue 25 Aug 20264:26 pmOther16 min2b3cddd9
Tue 25 Aug 20266:26 pmTraffic and crashes9 min1099355d
Wed 26 Aug 202611:49 amAssisting another agency17 min02c88671
Sat 29 Aug 202612:44 pmCall for service8 min3dec5c6b

All 29 flights in August 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. "Highlands" 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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