Evans Airport

The closure was a direct result of its replacement by a new, superior public airport. In August 1980, the current Oakley Municipal Airport (ICAO: KOEL) was activated a few miles northeast of the old site. The new airport featured a modern, 5,000-foot paved runway and better facilities, rendering the smaller, unpaved Evans Airport obsolete for the community's aviation needs.

The site of the former Evans Airport is now private property and has been completely converted to agricultural use. High-resolution satellite imagery shows that a large center-pivot irrigation system now operates over the former airfield. The faint, ghostly outlines of the two former runways (oriented NW/SE and NE/SW) are still visible on the ground, but the land is actively farmed and is no longer recognizable or usable as an airport. Any original buildings, like hangars, have likely been demolished or repurposed for farm storage.

Originally established as the Oakley Municipal Airport sometime before 1949, this airfield served as the primary general aviation hub for Oakley and the surrounding Logan County. It primarily handled light civil aircraft, including private planes for local residents and businesses, and agricultural aircraft (crop dusters) vital to the regional economy. In its later years, it became a private field and was renamed Evans Airport. Charts from the 1960s and 1970s show it had two unpaved runways, the longest being approximately 2,600 feet, typical for a small-town airfield of its era.

There are no plans or prospects for reopening Evans Airport. The community is well-served by the modern Oakley Municipal Airport (KOEL). The land has been fully reclaimed for a different economic purpose (agriculture), and its reactivation as an airfield would be logistically and economically unfeasible.