CityDroneWatch
  1. CityDroneWatch
  2. Minnesota
  3. Rochester
  4. Elton Hills
  5. July 2026

Rochester, Minnesota

Elton Hills, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 42 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

42

drone flights crossed Elton Hills.

42

of them in July 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Elton Hills 42 times between 1 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

42 of the 42 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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.
Elton HillsOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

24% 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 42 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Events24%
  3. Training and testing12%
  4. Traffic and crashes5%
  5. Other2%
  6. Search2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 20262:19 pmEvents11 min1da2ebcd
Wed 1 Jul 20267:29 pmEvents7 minf047eb81
Thu 2 Jul 20268:40 pmCall for service10 min8e7faeb5
Thu 2 Jul 20268:57 pmEvents12 min2845fcd1
Fri 3 Jul 202611:02 pmCall for service11 mind2450439
Sun 5 Jul 202612:45 pmTraining and testing6 minde29c7d7
Sun 5 Jul 20261:11 pmTraining and testing8 min16b576b0
Sun 5 Jul 20269:30 pmCall for service7 min5dd47b02
Wed 8 Jul 20267:46 pmCall for service14 min091f44d6
Thu 9 Jul 202610:42 amTraining and testing13 min4bdc4cdd
Fri 10 Jul 20261:19 amEvents9 min6e1600b1
Fri 10 Jul 20267:52 pmCall for service14 min8f1e2f37
Fri 10 Jul 20268:30 pmEvents11 min34c2d08a
Sat 11 Jul 20269:18 pmCall for service13 min12926f41
Sat 11 Jul 20269:46 pmCall for service9 minbf285523
Sat 11 Jul 202611:47 pmCall for service17 min13adc906
Tue 14 Jul 20268:34 amEvents9 min7ae7dca6
Tue 14 Jul 20261:53 pmOther13 min5a49fd32
Tue 14 Jul 20262:35 pmTraining and testing5 min61644f02
Tue 14 Jul 20262:55 pmTraining and testing7 minc611a56e
Tue 14 Jul 20268:34 pmCall for service7 min683ee034
Wed 15 Jul 202612:08 amCall for service14 minb9580263
Fri 17 Jul 202610:08 amCall for service9 min0009e302
Fri 17 Jul 20262:20 pmCall for service14 min39d026a5
Fri 17 Jul 20265:16 pmTraffic and crashes8 min0ec8fac4
Fri 17 Jul 20268:52 pmCall for service16 min0609c0be
Sun 19 Jul 20261:01 amCall for service14 min2dd05bee
Tue 21 Jul 20262:00 amCall for service15 min8cfdca3c
Tue 21 Jul 20263:01 pmEvents16 minaa0b963c
Tue 21 Jul 20263:53 pmEvents15 min8b103c8b
Wed 22 Jul 20267:13 pmCall for service12 min23bcefe2
Thu 23 Jul 20262:39 amCall for service8 minf72c05cd
Thu 23 Jul 202612:14 pmTraffic and crashes13 minaf46f2e8
Fri 24 Jul 20261:33 pmEvents9 min7be4fff8
Fri 24 Jul 20268:30 pmCall for service12 minc58db705
Fri 24 Jul 202611:43 pmCall for service9 minc0b5c6f1
Mon 27 Jul 20265:12 pmCall for service16 min49f219ea
Mon 27 Jul 20266:49 pmCall for service14 min8fe605c7
Tue 28 Jul 20266:08 pmCall for service8 min7e40cdcf
Tue 28 Jul 20269:14 pmCall for service13 minc0af9c1e
Tue 28 Jul 202610:28 pmSearch15 min129cd5e6
Fri 31 Jul 202610:43 pmEvents5 mina8babee7

All 42 flights in July 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. "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.

Corrections and questions: see the about page. See about this site for the sources and the publication rules.