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Unit 3A1 — North Dakota

5% public across 2,461,545 ac. Road access is easy — only 0% of the public land is more than a mile from a road. Watch the checkerboard: 5,055 ac of public land has no public route in.

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Deer draw odds (2)Odds and pins: free, no account

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1,830–2,560 ft

elevation range

public land

of public >1 mi from a road

5,055 ac

landlocked public

1.88

road miles per mi²

3,470 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Draw hunts on this ground.

2 limited-entry deer hunts are drawn on Unit 3A1: apply in the North Dakota draw, by the agency's deadline below.

Deer tag · 2 draw hunts (2026)$35.00 resident · $355.00 nonresident

Plus: Fishing, Hunting, Furbearer Certificate$2.00 resident · $5.00 nonresident

Season dates: see North Dakota Game and Fish Department's regulations

NDGF — Resident licences and requirements ↗

NDGF — Resident licences and requirements ↗Draw odds for North Dakota deer →How the North Dakota draw works →

Fees and draw dates from North Dakota Game and Fish Department, 2026, verified 2026-08-16 — past its verify-by date, confirm with the agency. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: NDGF — Resident licences and requirements · NDGF — Nonresident licences and requirements.

Land & access

■ SLB 3%■ FWS 2%■ SFW 0%□ Private 95%

Unit area2,461,545 ac

Public land115,679 ac (5%)

Landlocked public5,055 ac (4.4%)

Deer draw pressure135 tags/mi² public (6.0 of total area)

Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)7,246 mi

Maintained trails3,470 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road514 ac (0% of public)

Road density1.88 mi/mi²

Managed bySLB 63k ac · FWS 50k ac · SFW 3k ac

Elevation1,830–2,560 ft

Median elevation2,220 ft

Median slope1°

Where the ground sits

1,830 ft2,560 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 25%

E 26%

S 23%

W 26%

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 →

Unit intelligence report

38,831 ac of this unit has burned — 2% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Season conditions — measured, not vibes

Historical temperatures · 2000–2025

Normals for 2000–2025 — tap or hover for a month

Measured at MINOT AFB AIRPORT, 141 km from the unit’s center and ~600 ft below its median elevation — expect the unit to run colder. NOAA ISD-Lite hourly observations.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)
# AGPL — read the pipeline →

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 3B117% public · 11% remote Unit 3A34% public · 2% remote Unit 3A24% public · 0% remote Unit 4A21% public · 4% remote Unit 4B42% public · 3% remote Unit 3B228% public · 35% remote

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