Sharp Airport

No single official reason for the closure is documented. As a small, privately owned turf airstrip, its closure was most likely due to common factors affecting such airfields. These typically include the owner's retirement or death, the sale of the property for other purposes (in this case, agriculture), rising liability insurance costs, or a decline in use that made its upkeep impractical.

The site of the former Sharp Airport has been completely converted back to agricultural use. Current satellite imagery shows the land is actively farmed, with crops planted over the area where the runway once existed. Under certain lighting and crop conditions, a faint outline of the former north-south runway is still discernible in the field, but no airport infrastructure, such as hangars, buildings, or markings, remains.

Sharp Airport was a small, private general aviation airfield. It was not a commercial or military facility. Its primary role was to support recreational flying for its owner and possibly other local pilots. The airport consisted of a single unpaved, turf runway, oriented approximately north-south, with a length of about 2,200 feet. It served as a typical example of the numerous private airstrips that were common across rural America in the mid-to-late 20th century, supporting the personal aviation community. The identifier 'US-10829' is a non-official code used by some third-party databases and is not a recognized ICAO or FAA identifier.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Sharp Airport. The land is privately owned and has been fully reclaimed for farming. Re-establishing an airport on the site would require the landowner to cease agricultural operations and invest significantly in clearing, grading, and potentially certifying the airstrip, which is highly improbable.