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Rochester, Minnesota

Cimarron, December 2025Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 14 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

14

drone flights crossed Cimarron.

14

of them in December 2025.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Cimarron 14 times between 3 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 2025. 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.
CimarronOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

57% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 14 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Traffic and crashes14%
  3. Training and testing7%
  4. Events7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Dec 20255:01 pmCall for service9 mindde207a6
Mon 15 Dec 20251:39 pmTraining and testing8 min01deb28b
Tue 16 Dec 202512:24 amEvents8 minf99798da
Tue 16 Dec 20253:34 pmTraffic and crashes10 mincb1b774a
Tue 16 Dec 20256:16 pmCall for service12 mina609b377
Tue 16 Dec 202510:29 pmCall for service7 min45e3fa91
Fri 19 Dec 20259:34 amCall for service12 min1143791f
Fri 19 Dec 20255:38 pmTraffic and crashes11 min629880b7
Sun 21 Dec 202510:26 pmCall for service12 minbdba2a21
Mon 22 Dec 202510:58 pmCall for service15 min855a0d2c
Wed 24 Dec 20251:46 amCall for service8 min7e1f0097
Wed 24 Dec 20253:29 amCall for service12 min5e8e4878
Wed 31 Dec 202510:01 pmCall for service15 min25a38230
Wed 31 Dec 202510:35 pmCall for service13 min8c94a65b

All 14 flights in December 2025. 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. "Cimarron" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Rochester. 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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