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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 5

Inyan Kara · Deer area 5 · 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 5Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

13%

30,953 ac of 233,622 ac

Landlocked public

7,106 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

19%

of public · 5,891 ac

Walk-in access

1,249 ac

private land opened to hunting

mule deer · 2025

39.4% success

137 taken by 348 hunters · 1,095 days afield

135 bucks · 2 does · 0 fawns

Res 41% · NR 34% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 44% → 39%

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation4,140–6,270 ft
Median elevation4,680 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

4,140 ft6,270 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 23%
E 25%
S 24%
W 29%

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

Keyhole · Deer area 3 · 17% publicSand Creek · Deer area 4 · 40% publicSkull Creek · Deer area 6 · 27% publicSouth Osage · Deer area 7 · 29% 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.