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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, July 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 24 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

24

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

24

of them in July 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 24 times between 2 July 2026 and 31 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 July 2026.

24 of the 24 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

4% 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 24 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service42%
  2. Events33%
  3. Training and testing21%
  4. Traffic and crashes4%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Jul 20269:39 pmCall for service8 min8ae07ef1
Fri 3 Jul 20269:50 amEvents5 min076c36e3
Fri 3 Jul 20265:08 pmCall for service22 min2af2f8e1
Fri 3 Jul 20268:23 pmCall for service8 min44ec0e4a
Fri 3 Jul 20269:04 pmEvents21 min62440522
Sun 5 Jul 202612:45 pmTraining and testing6 minde29c7d7
Sun 5 Jul 20261:11 pmTraining and testing8 min16b576b0
Mon 6 Jul 20269:21 pmCall for service13 min9ddabf85
Tue 7 Jul 20268:42 pmCall for service9 min370e5fe0
Thu 9 Jul 202610:43 amTraining and testing12 min1ab37aa3
Sat 11 Jul 20269:33 pmCall for service6 min1415f1b3
Tue 14 Jul 202612:03 pmCall for service8 min0f1e3cdc
Tue 14 Jul 20262:35 pmTraining and testing5 min61644f02
Tue 14 Jul 20262:55 pmTraining and testing7 minc611a56e
Sat 18 Jul 20267:48 pmCall for service12 mina5a2de32
Tue 21 Jul 20262:41 pmEvents23 min98618cc3
Tue 21 Jul 20263:01 pmEvents16 minaa0b963c
Tue 21 Jul 20263:49 pmEvents8 mincaf9c7be
Tue 21 Jul 20263:53 pmEvents15 min8b103c8b
Thu 23 Jul 20265:00 pmEvents7 min9a3728c3
Fri 24 Jul 20263:23 pmTraffic and crashes10 min49e8f37c
Fri 24 Jul 202611:22 pmEvents15 minb02819cf
Tue 28 Jul 202612:00 pmCall for service18 min69b393e6
Fri 31 Jul 20269:16 pmCall for service13 minc7f5a66a

All 24 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, 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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