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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cottonwood Creek, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 35 of the 13,310 flights in Colorado Springs Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

35

drone flights crossed Cottonwood Creek.

35

of them in August 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cottonwood Creek 35 times between 2 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Colorado Springs Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

35 of the 35 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.
Cottonwood CreekOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

29% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

0 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 35 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Drone as first responder97%
  2. Not stated3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sun 2 Aug 20262:14 amNot stated11 min04d1b7db
Mon 3 Aug 20262:43 amDrone as first responder14 min30b1d0fe
Mon 3 Aug 20267:13 amDrone as first responder9 min412db119
Wed 5 Aug 20263:20 amDrone as first responder14 min2d34e416
Thu 6 Aug 20266:39 pmDrone as first responder14 min0694581a
Sat 8 Aug 20263:00 amDrone as first responder12 min87758232
Sun 9 Aug 20264:52 pmDrone as first responder18 min77a2f24b
Tue 11 Aug 20269:23 amDrone as first responder8 min32d945a2
Wed 12 Aug 20264:28 pmDrone as first responder9 minc104a0c2
Thu 13 Aug 20263:21 amDrone as first responder12 minfbc6432a
Sat 15 Aug 20266:41 amDrone as first responder15 minb0b6dfa6
Sun 16 Aug 20262:21 pmDrone as first responder15 min36d914f6
Mon 17 Aug 20268:36 amDrone as first responder15 mine337962a
Mon 17 Aug 20262:18 pmDrone as first responder19 min0994dd90
Mon 17 Aug 20264:00 pmDrone as first responder14 minbbf956c4
Mon 17 Aug 20267:03 pmDrone as first responder10 minae2eacb2
Wed 19 Aug 202612:54 pmDrone as first responder12 min5847c66c
Wed 19 Aug 20263:33 pmDrone as first responder13 min402dc4b6
Thu 20 Aug 20269:25 pmDrone as first responder11 mine29c393c
Fri 21 Aug 202610:19 pmDrone as first responder13 mindccf5feb
Sun 23 Aug 202610:37 amDrone as first responder10 min7dba68b7
Sun 23 Aug 20266:05 pmDrone as first responder12 min9e16d081
Sun 23 Aug 20267:13 pmDrone as first responder11 min6ae7fd94
Mon 24 Aug 20263:16 amDrone as first responder17 min5eb90f5f
Mon 24 Aug 202610:57 pmDrone as first responder10 min910dc125
Tue 25 Aug 20266:27 amDrone as first responder16 mind16ddd8d
Thu 27 Aug 20267:01 pmDrone as first responder16 minc5b764c6
Thu 27 Aug 20267:18 pmDrone as first responder11 mine5b550af
Thu 27 Aug 20268:54 pmDrone as first responder14 min4d4c08fc
Fri 28 Aug 20263:20 amDrone as first responder13 mind3bb771f
Fri 28 Aug 20268:15 amDrone as first responder11 minf55e2455
Fri 28 Aug 202611:36 amDrone as first responder18 minba689b0a
Fri 28 Aug 20269:54 pmDrone as first responder17 min3729acd6
Sun 30 Aug 20265:15 amDrone as first responder12 min143b0d64
Sun 30 Aug 20269:04 amDrone as first responder13 min3762357f

All 35 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, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "Cottonwood Creek" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Colorado Springs (Neighborhoods_2022), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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