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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, January 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

9

of them in January 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 9 times between 1 January 2026 and 25 January 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 January 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events56%
  2. Call for service44%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 20269:00 pmEvents9 mind943c310
Mon 5 Jan 20266:59 amEvents20 min2a3f8714
Tue 6 Jan 20266:36 amEvents15 mine46d0256
Thu 8 Jan 20269:02 pmCall for service10 mina13fa3c9
Fri 9 Jan 20262:35 pmCall for service13 minb6e6c8b1
Fri 9 Jan 20263:11 pmCall for service10 min69aaaebd
Fri 9 Jan 20267:28 pmEvents13 min240c105e
Sun 11 Jan 20267:57 pmEvents9 min4313a620
Sun 25 Jan 20268:31 pmCall for service8 minc454501a

All 9 flights in January 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, 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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