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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, August 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication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 August 2026.

24

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

24

of them in August 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 24 times between 3 August 2026 and 31 August 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 August 2026.

24 of the 24 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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

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

17% 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 service58%
  2. Training and testing21%
  3. Events12%
  4. Traffic and crashes8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 3 Aug 20261:42 pmCall for service11 minc8c6720c
Mon 3 Aug 20263:01 pmCall for service22 min5f6a8e28
Wed 5 Aug 20269:04 amEvents8 min9bd41cae
Wed 5 Aug 202611:50 amTraining and testing7 min00436682
Thu 6 Aug 20261:12 pmTraffic and crashes14 min64902382
Thu 6 Aug 20264:43 pmCall for service9 min110070cd
Fri 7 Aug 202611:00 pmCall for service10 min3681f93b
Sat 8 Aug 20266:58 pmCall for service10 min80093bb6
Sat 8 Aug 20267:54 pmCall for service10 min0c9368f5
Mon 10 Aug 20268:54 amCall for service9 min0101d610
Wed 12 Aug 202611:55 amEvents17 min23d3f2c3
Wed 12 Aug 20262:34 pmCall for service12 min70c9caaf
Wed 12 Aug 20263:29 pmTraffic and crashes7 min128e8a48
Mon 17 Aug 20267:54 pmCall for service9 min50b8d66f
Mon 17 Aug 20268:29 pmCall for service16 min7e040a7a
Sat 22 Aug 20269:16 pmCall for service15 min083389fe
Sat 22 Aug 202610:20 pmEvents15 minb6f943b2
Sun 23 Aug 202610:34 pmCall for service13 min60a8af93
Mon 24 Aug 20266:21 pmCall for service13 min5c58cac7
Tue 25 Aug 20261:58 amCall for service13 min34b2332d
Wed 26 Aug 20264:01 pmTraining and testing7 min5f123eb7
Wed 26 Aug 20264:45 pmTraining and testing8 min557093e5
Mon 31 Aug 20268:10 pmTraining and testing6 min4de62f72
Mon 31 Aug 20269:21 pmTraining and testing6 min1e0d1ac7

All 24 flights in August 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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