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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, September 2026Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 25 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

25

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

25

of them in September 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 25 times between 2 September 2026 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

25 of the 25 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

20% 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 25 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service52%
  2. Events20%
  3. Search20%
  4. Other8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20263:15 pmOther20 min7c4e6a43
Wed 2 Sep 20264:00 pmCall for service9 minf3c935a7
Thu 3 Sep 20266:48 pmEvents11 minb85d9bbe
Thu 3 Sep 202610:19 pmCall for service14 min43dfcd58
Fri 4 Sep 202611:18 amSearch24 min4615ec17
Fri 4 Sep 202611:43 amSearch13 minf06a1238
Sat 5 Sep 20261:50 amEvents8 min09797aab
Sat 5 Sep 202611:28 pmCall for service7 minbe82aa05
Sun 6 Sep 20261:45 amCall for service8 min227ea074
Tue 8 Sep 20263:29 pmCall for service8 min980eec3b
Tue 8 Sep 20268:41 pmCall for service7 min573b82d9
Wed 9 Sep 20265:38 pmCall for service9 minbc7a1f14
Fri 11 Sep 202612:59 pmEvents7 mind17a312f
Fri 11 Sep 20267:44 pmCall for service16 min766482d6
Sat 12 Sep 20262:12 pmCall for service5 min855b46a2
Sat 12 Sep 20265:11 pmCall for service8 minb71862ed
Tue 15 Sep 20266:54 amEvents21 mind9db200e
Tue 15 Sep 20262:09 pmOther20 mina6397398
Thu 17 Sep 202610:55 pmCall for service7 min4ff936e1
Fri 25 Sep 20264:58 pmSearch23 mine445ef07
Fri 25 Sep 20266:21 pmCall for service21 min8600203d
Sat 26 Sep 20262:48 pmCall for service11 min74f2988d
Tue 29 Sep 20267:14 pmEvents8 min027f1ab0
Wed 30 Sep 20269:09 pmSearch18 min7573c94c
Wed 30 Sep 20269:29 pmSearch17 mindeab6f07

All 25 flights in September 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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