Hill Airport

Economic reasons and change in land use. Hill Airport was a private airfield, and its closure is typical for such facilities when the owner no longer has a need for it, sells the property, or passes away. The land was immediately and fully converted back into productive, cultivated farmland, indicating its value for agriculture outweighed its value as an airstrip.

The site has been completely reclaimed for farming. High-resolution satellite imagery shows the exact location of the former runway is now an active, cultivated agricultural field, integrated with the surrounding farmland. There are no visible remnants of the runway, taxiways, or any aviation-related structures like hangars. The land is part of a modern farming operation.

Hill Airport, which formerly used the FAA identifier 1CO1, was a private general aviation airfield. It was owned by a local farmer, Melvin Hill, and was operational from at least 1971. The airfield consisted of a single unpaved, 2,600-foot runway oriented roughly east/west. Its primary operations would have been for the owner's personal transportation and likely for agricultural purposes, such as crop dusting, which is common in this rural region of Colorado. While not of major historical significance, it was a charted landmark for pilots for several decades and represented a class of private 'farm strips' that were once numerous across the American plains.

Effectively zero. There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Hill Airport. The land has been fully converted to valuable agricultural use, and re-establishing an airfield would be economically prohibitive and require taking productive farmland out of commission. Given the rural location and the availability of other public-use airports in the region (e.g., Yuma Municipal Airport), there is no practical demand for an airport at this site.