Bowman Field

The closure was due to a change in land use from aviation to agriculture. The installation of a large center-pivot irrigation system on the property indicates the owner repurposed the land for more economically valuable farming operations, a common fate for small, private airstrips in rural areas.

The site of the former Bowman Field is now an active agricultural field. Satellite imagery clearly shows the land is part of a large, circular farm plot cultivated using a center-pivot irrigation system. There are no visible remnants of the former runway or any aviation facilities.

Bowman Field was a small, private airfield primarily used for general aviation and likely agricultural operations. It was owned by R.L. Bowman. The 1982 AOPA Airport Directory described it as having a single 2,600-foot unpaved turf runway. Its significance was purely local, serving the owner and possibly other private pilots in the area for personal transport or crop-dusting activities common in this agricultural region of Idaho. It never handled commercial or military traffic.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been fully and irreversibly converted to agricultural use, and the original infrastructure is gone. Re-establishing an airfield at this location would require purchasing valuable farmland and significant new construction, for which there is no apparent demand.