Airport (former) Development – Rock Springs WY

Description

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to improve what was then the airport for Rock Springs, Wyoming. Located about five miles north of Rock Springs, the airport is no longer extant; it was replaced in 1942 by what is now known as Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport.

Source notes

Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 103).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 19, 2022)

https://www.airfields-freeman.com/wy/airfields_wy.htm#rocksprings (accessed Jul. 19, 2022)

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 19, 2022.

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Location Info


382 WY-370
Rock Springs, WY 82901

Location notes: Approx. coordinates, per Airfields WY

Coordinates: 41.63, -109.240000

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