KCKP Cherokee County Rgnl

PROBABLE 68%

Runway 18 — wind slightly favors it, low confidence

Based mostly on wind; no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available.

certainty: 68% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 120° true at 14 kt G24 · VFR · 47 min old · from KLRJ (28.3 nm away)

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18 64% 4001 ft · 6 kt head, 12 kt x-left

19 36% 1941 ft · 5 kt head, 13 kt x-left

1 <1% 1941 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 13 kt x-right

36 <1% 4001 ft · 6 kt TAIL, 12 kt x-right

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 18

WIND 6 kt headwind, 12 kt left crosswind 47 min ago +1.07
PRIOR runway length 4001 ft +0.07

Runway 19

WIND 5 kt headwind, 13 kt left crosswind 47 min ago +0.66
PRIOR runway length 1941 ft -0.07

Runway 1

WIND 5 kt TAILWIND, 13 kt right crosswind 47 min ago -6.23
PRIOR runway length 1941 ft -0.07

Runway 36

WIND 6 kt TAILWIND, 12 kt right crosswind 47 min ago -10.40
PRIOR runway length 4001 ft +0.07

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	47 min	Nearest station KLRJ (28.3 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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KCKP field & runways

Cherokee County Rgnl, Cherokee, Iowa. Field elevation 1227 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 5.0°E on record, 1.7°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.058°/year west — about 1° every 17 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern
1	10.1°	8.5°	matches	1,941 ft	TURF
18	182.7°	181.0°	matches	4,001 ft	CONC	left
19	190.1°	188.5°	matches	1,941 ft	TURF
36	2.7°	1.0°	matches	4,001 ft	CONC	left

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KCKP ☆ Cherokee County Rgnl