Elk hunt area — its own geography, drawn across the county lines. Public land, access, and elk harvest below are computed for this boundary.
Public hunting land
33%
489,066 ac of 1,489,557 ac
Landlocked public
3,731 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
1%
of public · 4,853 ac
Elk · 2025 · elk zone
3 harvested
no unit-level hunter count published
3 bulls
Elk harvest · 2020–2025 · 5 → 3
Plan it
Missouri elk draw odds — 1 hunt here →
5 tags drawn on this elk zone last season.
OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →
Terrain — this boundary, not the county’s
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing
North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.
USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →
Boundaries from the Missouri Department of Conservation elk hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.