Meadowlark Field

The specific reason for closure is not officially documented. However, as a small, privately owned airfield, the most probable cause was a decision by the owner to cease operations. This is a common fate for private strips due to factors like the owner's retirement, sale of the property, rising maintenance costs, or liability concerns. There is no evidence to suggest closure was due to a major accident or military conversion.

The site of the former airport is now used for agricultural purposes, specifically for growing and baling hay. Satellite imagery of the coordinates (35.620398, -95.744202) clearly shows the faint outline of the former north-south runway, but it is completely overgrown with grass and vegetation. There are no remaining airport structures such as hangars, windsocks, or markings. The land has been fully returned to farmland.

Meadowlark Field was a small, private general aviation airfield. It was not historically significant on a national level but served as a local private airstrip. It was established sometime between 1977 and 1980. Records from the 1980s and 1990s describe it as having a single unpaved turf runway, designated 17/35, with a length of 2,600 feet. Operations were limited to private recreational flying for the owner and likely invited guests, typical for a personal grass strip.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Meadowlark Field. Given that it has been closed for approximately two decades and the land has been successfully repurposed for agriculture, the likelihood of it ever returning to service as an airport is extremely low to non-existent.