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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 9

Blacktail Creek · Deer area 9 · 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 9Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

22%

89,014 ac of 400,685 ac

Landlocked public

2,445 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

1%

of public · 1,156 ac

mule deer · 2025

34.4% success

72 taken by 209 hunters · 813 days afield

72 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 30% · NR 39% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 48% → 34%

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Wyoming deer draw odds

Same number, different ground: Elk area 9

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation3,680–5,550 ft
Median elevation4,120 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

3,680 ft5,550 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 20%
E 28%
S 19%
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

South Osage · Deer area 7 · 29% publicMule Creek · Deer area 11 · 23% publicSkull Creek · Deer area 6 · 27% publicUpton-Four Horse · Deer area 8 · 27% 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.