page_title: Mather Air Force Base
section_title: Closure
hierarchical_section_title: Mather Air Force Base / History / Closure
caption_attribution_description: English: Emblem of the 320th Bombardment Wing (SAC)
context_page_description: Mather Air Force Base was a United States Air Force Base, which was closed in 1993 pursuant to a post-Cold War BRAC decision. It was located 12 miles east of Sacramento, on the south side of U.S. Route 50 in Sacramento County, California. Mather Field was one of 32 Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.
  The Mather AFB land has various post-military uses including Sacramento Mather Airport, established in 1995. Some of the land was included in the City of Rancho Cordova, when it was incorporated in 2003.
context_section_description: Parts of the airfield were listed on the National Priorities List as a Superfund site on 22 July 1987. The entire site was listed on 21 November 1989.
  On 30 September 1993, the 5,845 acres (2,365 ha), including 129 acres (522,000 m²) of easements, of Mather AFB was decommissioned under the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Most of the base was transferred to Sacramento County, California.   Current sites of the former AFB include:
  Sacramento Mather Airport (1995)
  Mather Regional Park
  Veterans Administration Medical Center
  FAA Northern California Terminal Radar Approach Control TRACON
  Mather Community Campus, a transitional living facility (1995).
caption: Emblem of the 320th Bombardment Wing
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