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Units / Wyoming / Deer area 98

Chain Lakes · Deer area 98 · 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 98Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public land

71%

494,817 ac of 699,982 ac

Landlocked public

479 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

19%

of public · 95,491 ac

mule deer · 2025

30.3% success

23 taken by 76 hunters · 342 days afield

23 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns

Res 26% · NR 100% success

mule deer hunter success · 2021–2025 · 19% → 30%

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Wyoming deer draw odds

Same number, different ground: Elk area 98

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Terrain — this boundary, not the elk area’s

Elevation6,480–8,040 ft
Median elevation6,790 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

6,480 ft8,040 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 28%
E 26%
S 22%
W 24%

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

Atlantic Rim · Deer area 84 · 55% publicGreen Mountain · Deer area 96 · 91% publicFerris · Deer area 87 · 68% publicSpring Creek · Deer area 80 · 56% 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.