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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 24

Sheridan · Deer area 24 · 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 24Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

12%

36,348 ac of 314,121 ac

Landlocked public

5,856 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

14%

of public · 5,051 ac

Walk-in access

14,852 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

31% success

252 taken by 813 hunters · 3,667 days afield

245 bucks · 5 does · 2 fawns

Res 30% · NR 35% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 46% → 31%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

539 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 24 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,630–8,570 ft
Median elevation4,390 ft
Median slope6°

Where the ground sits

3,630 ft8,570 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 35%
E 29%
S 18%
W 17%

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

Tongue-Goose · Deer area 25 · 99% publicUpper Shell-Beaver Creek · Deer area 50 · 100% publicClearmont · Deer area 23 · 16% publicCloud Peak · Deer area 46 · 100% 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.