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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 164

Nowater · Deer area 164 · 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 164Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

90%

293,716 ac of 327,151 ac

Landlocked public

80 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

4%

of public · 10,784 ac

Walk-in access

984 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

49.1% success

167 taken by 340 hunters · 1,357 days afield

110 bucks · 52 does · 5 fawns

Res 44% · NR 65% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 37% → 49%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 4 hunts here →

107 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,040–5,480 ft
Median elevation4,570 ft
Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

4,040 ft5,480 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 19%
E 30%
S 16%
W 35%

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

Bates Creek · Deer area 39 · 65% publicCopper Mountain · Deer area 37 · 51% publicLower Nowood · Deer area 41 · 72% publicBuffalo Creek · Deer area 40 · 55% public

Boundaries from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department deer hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.