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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 30 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

30

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

30

of them in October 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 30 times between 1 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

30 of the 30 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

43% 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 30 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Other17%
  3. Events17%
  4. Training and testing7%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Oct 20252:21 pmCall for service5 minbbb94438
Thu 2 Oct 20255:10 pmCall for service8 min0bd83070
Thu 2 Oct 202510:08 pmOther8 minca8da9e1
Fri 3 Oct 20259:48 pmCall for service13 min7268119d
Fri 3 Oct 202510:13 pmOther7 min70c3369a
Wed 8 Oct 20258:32 amCall for service11 minfcde9c05
Wed 8 Oct 20254:52 pmCall for service17 mindf002a0d
Thu 9 Oct 20251:39 pmTraining and testing19 minb2afed0f
Fri 10 Oct 20251:55 pmCall for service21 min7d3bbea3
Fri 10 Oct 20253:03 pmEvents10 min84e4a4c7
Fri 10 Oct 20259:21 pmEvents12 min16996c54
Sat 11 Oct 20257:28 pmCall for service8 min57137f5b
Sun 12 Oct 202510:45 pmCall for service15 min78df99a3
Mon 13 Oct 20251:55 amCall for service12 min8c5d8a2d
Mon 13 Oct 20256:40 amEvents16 min3ba79df8
Mon 13 Oct 20257:03 amEvents7 min04316477
Mon 13 Oct 202510:09 pmCall for service18 minabca30e6
Mon 13 Oct 202511:41 pmCall for service17 min2826043c
Tue 14 Oct 20251:45 amOther16 min0762470d
Tue 14 Oct 20252:24 amCall for service12 min66983679
Tue 14 Oct 20252:35 pmTraining and testing9 minf04ee7d8
Fri 17 Oct 20259:43 pmCall for service11 min2cfaf8cc
Sat 18 Oct 202512:12 amOther12 min53611b24
Sat 18 Oct 20257:35 pmCall for service16 min1d7fb54b
Sun 19 Oct 20252:11 amCall for service6 minfe81d2bc
Mon 20 Oct 202510:48 pmEvents7 min45bf0c2e
Sat 25 Oct 20252:09 amOther14 min9793d492
Tue 28 Oct 20259:17 amCall for service16 min38cf85a4
Tue 28 Oct 202510:46 pmCall for service7 min64440b5e
Thu 30 Oct 20254:17 pmCall for service13 min4bdb783b

All 30 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. "Lowertown" 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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