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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 39

Bates Creek · Deer area 39 · 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 39Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

65%

106,062 ac of 162,933 ac

Landlocked public

1,129 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

3%

of public · 3,361 ac

Walk-in access

4,665 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

64.1% success

91 taken by 142 hunters · 591 days afield

91 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 57% · NR 78% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 26% → 64%

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Wyoming deer draw odds

Same number, different ground: Elk area 39

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,540–7,140 ft
Median elevation5,330 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

4,540 ft7,140 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 26%
E 29%
S 12%
W 33%

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

Upper Nowood · Deer area 35 · 38% publicCopper Mountain · Deer area 37 · 52% publicNowater · Deer area 164 · 90% publicBadwater · Deer area 36 · 68% 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.