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Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 59 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

59

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

59

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 59 times between 2 October 2025 and 31 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 October 2025.

59 of the 59 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
Elton HillsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

31% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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 59 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Events14%
  3. Other5%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Search3%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 20259:08 amCall for service20 min6bd91262
Thu 2 Oct 202511:02 amEvents8 min0c56e1bc
Thu 2 Oct 20255:46 pmCall for service9 mind8487ac9
Fri 3 Oct 20257:56 amCall for service17 min5b4b529a
Fri 3 Oct 202512:19 pmCall for service8 min43e8aff9
Fri 3 Oct 20255:38 pmCall for service12 min3484fe32
Fri 3 Oct 20257:06 pmCall for service12 min8af23a1f
Sat 4 Oct 20251:34 amCall for service14 mina7b7cd40
Sat 4 Oct 20252:35 amCall for service9 min43383b46
Sat 4 Oct 20258:13 pmCall for service17 min5d3e80d2
Sat 4 Oct 202510:13 pmCall for service17 min94d41154
Sun 5 Oct 20251:52 amCall for service10 min647b5bbb
Sun 5 Oct 20252:41 amCall for service9 mina195c237
Tue 7 Oct 202511:25 amCall for service9 min144a61f6
Wed 8 Oct 20259:51 amCall for service19 min12869ab4
Wed 8 Oct 20254:52 pmCall for service17 mindf002a0d
Thu 9 Oct 20259:37 amCall for service3 min957fb8d8
Thu 9 Oct 202510:38 amOther12 min095c7e85
Thu 9 Oct 20251:39 pmTraining and testing19 minb2afed0f
Thu 9 Oct 20254:53 pmSearch13 min96686a1d
Thu 9 Oct 20258:36 pmCall for service12 min16c85812
Thu 9 Oct 20258:58 pmTraffic and crashes7 mina0cffb6b
Fri 10 Oct 202512:51 pmCall for service19 mined900ba0
Sat 11 Oct 20251:30 amEvents11 min749b7a32
Sat 11 Oct 20256:40 pmEvents6 min0b44e400
Mon 13 Oct 202511:44 amCall for service14 min7ae7e4e8
Mon 13 Oct 20259:50 pmCall for service14 min4ffed8c3
Mon 13 Oct 202511:21 pmCall for service11 min1dfdb25f
Tue 14 Oct 20253:44 pmTraining and testing13 min775227a0
Thu 16 Oct 20257:30 pmOther17 min40368dfc
Fri 17 Oct 20251:10 amCall for service19 mina85e98d1
Fri 17 Oct 20251:53 pmEvents11 min133e8fa6
Fri 17 Oct 20259:52 pmEvents9 minb8bca000
Fri 17 Oct 202510:14 pmEvents15 minc813fdea
Sat 18 Oct 20252:12 amEvents13 mindad8744a
Sat 18 Oct 20259:28 amCall for service1 min 58 s19d43681
Sat 18 Oct 20256:31 pmCall for service9 min6a53b822
Sat 18 Oct 20257:50 pmOther14 mind7089704
Sat 18 Oct 202511:35 pmCall for service20 mina037ed9e
Mon 20 Oct 202510:30 pmCall for service9 min87c8c8e0
Mon 20 Oct 202511:56 pmEvents13 min7583e117
Wed 22 Oct 202511:58 amCall for service7 mine6b936b9
Wed 22 Oct 202512:52 pmCall for service16 minff3396f0
Thu 23 Oct 20256:04 pmTraining and testing8 mine87383d2
Fri 24 Oct 20256:50 pmCall for service19 min7d2b37e2
Mon 27 Oct 202510:17 amSearch19 min273ce529
Mon 27 Oct 20258:07 pmCall for service14 minaa2b59e0
Tue 28 Oct 20258:09 pmCall for service8 min019ed199
Tue 28 Oct 20258:39 pmCall for service7 mindfcf0a39
Wed 29 Oct 20259:29 pmCall for service16 minfb2657eb
Wed 29 Oct 202510:19 pmCall for service9 min571915de
Thu 30 Oct 20254:20 amCall for service20 mina897682b
Thu 30 Oct 202512:44 pmCall for service19 minfeaaf838
Thu 30 Oct 20256:04 pmCall for service14 min607cc3a0
Thu 30 Oct 20257:54 pmCall for service18 min1101ea12
Thu 30 Oct 202511:53 pmCall for service6 minece8bba4
Fri 31 Oct 20251:05 amCall for service11 min031a842a
Fri 31 Oct 20259:08 pmCall for service14 minc774e549
Fri 31 Oct 202510:46 pmCall for service9 min4e92979f

All 59 flights in October 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, 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. "Elton Hills" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), 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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