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Sioux Gateway Airport (KSUX); serving Sioux City, Iowa; is viewed here in this click taken back in 2013 (seven years ago).
To orient the viewer, Runway 13-31 is the long runway that goes from upper left to bottom middle. The other runway going from top center to the center of the pic is 17-35.
An interesting note .... The very famous crash of UA Flt 232 (7/19/89) occurred here at Sioux City. The fabulous team of pilots who struggled and strained to get their heavy DC-10 down on the ground here had fought to get their crippled jet lined up to land on 31-13 but as it careened in circles in the Iowa sky it ended up aligned with a closed runway, 22-4, and because they had no other choice, it was on Runway 22 where the pilots managed to get Flt 232 down. In my photo here, which I snapped exactly 24 years after the crash, I believe that the remnants of Runway 22-4 are the faded diagonal running from near the top center downward toward the left middle edge. In my photo, the "4" portion of 22-4 still appears to be paved for a short distance while the "22" end of 22-4 has been built over and is now occupied by the two blue-roofed buildings of an Air Museum. The arrow-shaped intersection that today is the museum's parking lot was ... back on July 19, 1989 ... the start of Runway 22 which was marked with an "X" designating that it was closed. Also of interest, there are two aircraft (barely visible) sitting out on display on what was once the first few feet of Runway 22 (at the exact spot that Flt 232 touched down), and one of those two aircraft is an old Armstrong-Whitworth AW-660 Argosy (G-BFVT).