Nance Airport

The specific reason for closure is not officially documented. However, as a small, privately-owned turf strip, its closure was almost certainly due to personal or economic factors. Common reasons for the closure of such airfields include the owner's retirement or death, the sale of the land for other purposes (in this case, agriculture), or the increasing costs and liability associated with operating a private airport.

The site of the former Nance Airport has been fully reclaimed for agricultural use. Satellite imagery of the coordinates shows the land is now an active farm field. While no airport infrastructure remains, a faint, linear outline of the former north-south runway can still be discerned in the cropland, a common remnant of abandoned airfields.

Nance Airport (also known as Nance Field) was a small, private-use general aviation airfield owned by Wilbur Nance. Its significance was purely local, serving the recreational flying needs of its owner and possibly other pilots in the community. First appearing on aeronautical charts around 1960, it featured a single turf runway aligned north-south (18/36). The runway was initially 2,200 feet and was later extended to approximately 2,640 feet. The airport supported operations for light, single-engine aircraft capable of using an unpaved runway. It had no known commercial or military role.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Nance Airport. The land is privately owned and has been consistently used for farming for several decades. The likelihood of it being converted back into an airfield is virtually zero.