- City:
- Boulder City, NV
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“To accommodate the dramatic increase in motorists, the highway between Las Vegas and Kingman, Arizona, was kept open year-round by 1936. Visitors came to southern Nevada by car, rail, and plane. The CCC helped extend and surface new runways at Bullock’s Field in Boulder City. For several years, the Grand Canyon Airlines and Trans World Airlines scheduled regular stops in Boulder City for its planes on the Newark, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, California, route.”
–The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada
The former Bullocks Fiel is largely no longer extant, with a hangar—located at 1401 Madrone St.— being the only major building still standing. There are also a few slabs of concrete runway remaining.
Source notes
Kolvet, Renee Corona, and Victoria Ford. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. University of Nevada Press, 2015.
Sources written on Hoover Dam and Boulder City.
https://www.placesthatwere.com/2016/04/boulder-citys-lost-airport.html
Site originally submitted by Renee Corona Kolvet on April 28, 2022.
Additional contributions by Evan Kalish.
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