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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 81

Blackhall · Deer area 81 · 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 81Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

74%

143,543 ac of 194,519 ac

Landlocked public

964 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

6%

of public · 8,995 ac

mule deer · 2025

74.2% success

115 taken by 155 hunters · 755 days afield

115 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 68% · NR 94% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 70% → 74%

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Wyoming deer draw odds — 2 hunts here →

165 tags drawn on this deer area last season.

Same number, different ground: Elk area 81 →

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation7,140–10,870 ft
Median elevation8,540 ft
Median slope9°

Where the ground sits

7,140 ft10,870 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 32%
E 29%
S 20%
W 19%

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

French Creek · Deer area 78 · 73% publicSpring Creek · Deer area 80 · 56% publicBaggs · Deer area 82 · 73% publicSheep Mountain · Deer area 76 · 63% 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.