KCKN Crookston Muni/Kirkwood Fld

WIND_INFERRED 70%

Runway 31 — favored by the wind (7 kt at 290° true)

Based on wind only — 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: 70% evidence: WEAK no tower now

Wind 290° true at 7 kt · VFR · 10 min old · from KGFK (23.4 nm away)

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31 72% 4300 ft · 6 kt head, 3 kt x-left

35 24% 2977 ft · 2 kt head, 7 kt x-left

17 4% 2977 ft · 2 kt TAIL, 7 kt x-right

13 <1% 4300 ft · 6 kt TAIL, 3 kt x-right · calm-wind rwy

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 31

WIND 6 kt headwind, 3 kt left crosswind 10 min ago +1.36
PRIOR runway length 4300 ft +0.04

Runway 35

WIND 2 kt headwind, 7 kt left crosswind 10 min ago +0.33
PRIOR runway length 2977 ft -0.04

Runway 17

WIND 2 kt TAILWIND, 7 kt right crosswind 10 min ago -1.59
PRIOR runway length 2977 ft -0.04

Runway 13

WIND 6 kt TAILWIND, 3 kt right crosswind 10 min ago -7.14
PRIOR runway length 4300 ft +0.04

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	10 min	Nearest station KGFK (23.4 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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KCKN field & runways

Crookston Muni/Kirkwood Fld, Crookston, Minnesota. Field elevation 897 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 2.0°E on record, 2.3°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 0.046°/year west — about 1° every 22 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	Notes
13	135.0°	132.7°	matches rule gives runway 14 in ~50 yr	4,300 ft	ASPH	left	calm-wind CALM WIND RWY.
17	179.8°	177.5°	runway 18 by the rule today · 7.5° past	2,977 ft	TURF	left
31	315.0°	312.7°	matches rule gives runway 32 in ~50 yr	4,300 ft	ASPH	left
35	359.8°	357.5°	runway 36 by the rule today · 7.5° past	2,977 ft	TURF	left

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KCKN ☆ Crookston Muni/Kirkwood Fld