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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 163

Middle Fork · Deer area 163 · Wyoming

Deer hunt area — its own geography, not the elk area with the same number. Public land, access, and deer harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Deer area 163Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

70%

79,290 ac of 112,924 ac

Landlocked public

429 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 1,176 ac

mule deer · 2025

46% success

69 taken by 150 hunters · 514 days afield

69 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 44% · NR 48% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 30% → 46%

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation5,020–8,550 ft
Median elevation7,030 ft
Median slope9°

Where the ground sits

5,020 ft8,550 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 30%
E 33%
S 28%
W 10%

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 →

Nearby deer deer areas

Beartrap Creek · Deer area 32 · 36% publicRed Fork · Deer area 33 · 40% publicUpper Nowood · Deer area 35 · 38% publicTisdale Mountain · Deer area 169 · 51% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer 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.