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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, September 2025Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication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 September 2025.

14

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

14

of them in September 2025.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 14 times between 11 September 2025 and 27 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 September 2025.

14 of the 14 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

21% 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 14 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service57%
  2. Events14%
  3. Training and testing14%
  4. Other14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 11 Sep 20253:18 pmCall for service21 mina81b353e
Wed 17 Sep 20253:31 pmEvents10 min10070bb6
Sat 20 Sep 20259:24 pmCall for service10 min7ff9956a
Sun 21 Sep 20252:05 amCall for service9 minb8af0be6
Mon 22 Sep 20251:46 pmTraining and testing21 mindc2f6d1c
Thu 25 Sep 20259:36 amCall for service4 mina16c1a0a
Thu 25 Sep 20259:44 amCall for service8 minff9bfde5
Thu 25 Sep 20251:38 pmCall for service12 min7c3d2be6
Thu 25 Sep 20255:01 pmCall for service8 min372398e0
Thu 25 Sep 20255:35 pmTraining and testing8 minff7140c0
Thu 25 Sep 20258:55 pmCall for service13 mine2e0dc4d
Thu 25 Sep 202511:14 pmEvents6 min06157554
Sat 27 Sep 20259:46 pmOther16 minea00eea0
Sat 27 Sep 202511:19 pmOther7 mina582efa2

All 14 flights in September 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. "Lowertown" 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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