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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 40 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

40

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

40

of them in July 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 40 times between 1 July 2026 and 28 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 July 2026.

40 of the 40 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.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

28% 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 40 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Events28%
  3. Search5%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 202611:08 amEvents6 minfc908198
Wed 1 Jul 20266:58 pmCall for service9 mine681926d
Thu 2 Jul 20263:16 pmEvents8 min2c0744fc
Thu 2 Jul 202610:58 pmCall for service15 min74ea83c0
Thu 2 Jul 202611:23 pmEvents11 min819381cd
Fri 3 Jul 20263:06 pmCall for service13 mine0e10448
Fri 3 Jul 20268:00 pmCall for service8 minf0e091f2
Fri 3 Jul 202610:31 pmCall for service15 minc5f34845
Sat 4 Jul 20266:47 pmEvents10 min4490353f
Sat 4 Jul 20269:06 pmEvents10 min7ad02b8c
Sat 4 Jul 20269:23 pmEvents10 mina6775c3d
Sat 4 Jul 20269:58 pmEvents2 min749c1661
Sat 4 Jul 202611:48 pmCall for service16 min98720a4e
Sun 5 Jul 20264:20 pmCall for service11 min4c64e872
Sun 5 Jul 20265:17 pmSearch17 mineff4d3bc
Mon 6 Jul 202611:56 amCall for service12 min9cb3a856
Mon 6 Jul 20262:54 pmCall for service9 min76d7b7ec
Tue 7 Jul 20263:38 amCall for service12 min418481e1
Tue 7 Jul 20261:16 pmCall for service11 min1c4b1d94
Tue 7 Jul 20268:32 pmCall for service6 min6f5a3e6d
Wed 8 Jul 202612:37 pmCall for service11 min1c8a2918
Sat 11 Jul 202610:28 pmCall for service9 mind9717313
Sun 12 Jul 20261:04 amCall for service17 min25592eb0
Tue 14 Jul 202611:31 amEvents9 mina11a49e4
Fri 17 Jul 20269:29 amEvents13 min1aaa67ed
Fri 17 Jul 20263:25 pmTraining and testing7 min81a8104f
Fri 17 Jul 20265:07 pmEvents10 mine6df3246
Fri 17 Jul 202610:43 pmCall for service16 min5e95d579
Sat 18 Jul 20269:28 pmCall for service12 min383b15b4
Wed 22 Jul 202610:04 amCall for service9 minb09668cf
Wed 22 Jul 20263:21 pmCall for service11 min1f452849
Wed 22 Jul 20268:05 pmCall for service15 min635479aa
Wed 22 Jul 202610:45 pmCall for service21 min825738c7
Wed 22 Jul 202611:27 pmCall for service12 min5ab8099f
Thu 23 Jul 202611:48 pmTraffic and crashes22 min5328800d
Fri 24 Jul 20261:51 pmEvents15 minad9da935
Sat 25 Jul 202612:23 pmSearch16 minac6b5c1c
Tue 28 Jul 20269:12 amTraining and testing7 min4eacc0fc
Tue 28 Jul 20269:28 amCall for service11 minc5a213d2
Tue 28 Jul 20267:29 pmCall for service11 min9006ac17

All 40 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. "Historic Southwest" 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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