Walker Strip

The airport was a private airstrip. While the specific reason is not officially recorded, closure was almost certainly due to private and economic factors. This is common for small, private fields and typically occurs when the owner ceases aviation activities due to retirement, death, the sale of the property, or the high cost of maintaining an aircraft and airfield. The land was subsequently converted back to full-time agricultural use, which was its more economically valuable purpose.

The site of the former Walker Strip has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. Current satellite imagery shows the land is actively cultivated as part of a larger farm field. A very faint, ghostly outline of the former north-south dirt/grass runway is still visible from the air under certain conditions, but all associated airport infrastructure, such as hangars, markings, or a windsock, has been removed. At ground level, the site is indistinguishable from the surrounding farmland.

Walker Strip was a small, private-use general aviation airfield. Its name strongly suggests it was owned and operated by an individual or family named Walker. Located in a heavily agricultural region of western Kansas, its primary purpose was almost certainly for agricultural aviation (crop dusting, spraying) and/or for the personal and business transportation of the farm's owner. It served a purely local function and had no role in commercial, military, or scheduled public transport. Its FAA location identifier was 1KS4 before its closure.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Walker Strip. The land has been fully repurposed for agriculture, and the cost of re-establishing an airfield would be significant and without a clear modern purpose. The airport is considered permanently closed.