Gebauer Airport

The specific reason is not officially documented, which is common for a private airfield. The closure was most likely due to personal or economic factors. This typically includes the owner ceasing aviation activities, the owner's death, or the sale of the land to a party with no interest in maintaining an airport. There is no indication it was closed for military conversion or due to a specific accident.

The site of the former airport has been fully returned to agricultural use. Modern satellite imagery shows that the land where the runway was located is now actively farmed and cultivated with crops. While the faint outline of the former runway is still barely discernible from the air, all aviation infrastructure has been removed, and the land is indistinguishable from the surrounding farmland.

Gebauer Airport was a small, private-use airfield. It was named for its owner and operator, Harold Gebauer. Its operations were limited to general aviation, likely serving the personal and agricultural needs of the owner's farm or ranch. The airport consisted of a single unpaved, turf runway (oriented roughly 16/34) with a length of approximately 2,600 feet. It never had commercial passenger service or significant military use and was a typical example of the thousands of private airstrips that support rural and agricultural aviation in the United States.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Gebauer Airport. The land has been repurposed for agriculture for approximately two decades, making any return to aviation use extremely unlikely.