Where Centerville, Missouri, hunters can go

Tracts near Centerville

Land whose boundary comes within 10 miles of Centerville leads the table, nearest edge first; areas farther out follow by distance to their mapped point.

Biggest of the nearby tracts: Logan Creek Conservation Area, about 13,170 acres of public ground. Counted by type: 1 conservation or natural area and 1 federal area. MDC’s deer rule for Logan Creek Conservation Area is archery and firearms; antlerless permits may be filled there. For Clearwater Lake (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), federal rules allow hunting except where the district closes it; the district page was blocked on our check, so call the lake office. Mark Twain National Forest ground reaches the 10-mile ring, hunted under MDC rules and free of any federal fee.

Nearest tracts in brief

• Logan Creek CA: Logan Creek Conservation Area lies south of Black River and north of Current River.
• Funk Memorial State Forest and Wildlife Area: This is a forest area with a fen and a small lake.
• Ketcherside Mountain CA: Ketcherside Mountain CA is home to a portion of the St. Francois Mountains Natural Area and Royal Gorge Natural Area.
• Directions, Logan Creek CA: From the junction of Highway 106/Route B west of Ellington, take Route B north 3 miles to the main tract. See map for additional access.

Lands from MDC area pages and GIS layers, USFS, USFWS, NPS, Corps and Missouri State Parks records (lands.json; each land page cites its own source). Boundary miles from places.json, other miles to each mapped point. Deer methods and antlerless permit status from the 2026 Fall Deer and Turkey booklet area table and the MDC area deer quick view. Checked October 29, 2026.

Deer rules for the counties around Centerville

Antlerless limits, portions, CWD sampling and the feed ban all change at county lines, which is why the table runs county by county for Centerville.

In Reynolds County, firearms antlerless permits can be filled 1 time. Antlerless portions run in Reynolds County, as in 100 counties in all. Reynolds County is a mandatory CWD sampling county: deer taken Nov. 14 or 15 go, on the day of harvest, to a sampling station (3 stations in the county), and the hunter must be present. Reynolds County bars dogs for squirrels and rabbits in daylight during the November portion. Reynolds County is elk country: archery Oct 17 to Oct 25, 2026 and firearms Dec 12 to Dec 20, 2026 for drawn permit holders. Bear permits for zone 2 come through the resident drawing; 750 were set for 2026. Waterfowl dates follow the zone, and Reynolds County reads as Middle Zone (76%) and South Zone (24%) on the earlier layer.

Nearest sampling stations

County rules from the 2026 Fall Deer and Turkey booklet county table; CWD sampling counties and stations from the MDC CWD pages; bear zones from the 2026 Black Bear Hunting Digest; elk from the 2026 Elk Hunting Digest; duck zones from the 2026-2027 waterfowl digest and the 2021-2025 MDC zone layer. Checked October 29, 2026.

Centerville taxidermy and gear

Processors come from MDC’s Share the Harvest list, its CWD sampling partners, the MDC commercial permit listing and directory entries that name deer or game. Nearest Share the Harvest processor: Piedmont Processing, 25 mi. Lacey Taxidermy and Wildlife Art, 31 mi from town, tests heads as an MDC partner. For a mount, the closest taxidermist listed is Spurs 'N Furs, LLC in Ironton (21 mi). Ammunition and orange can be had at Arcadia Sporting Goods in Arcadia, 21 mi off. Preserve and guide listings begin with Piney Ridge Ranch (36 mi).

Processing shops

Mount makers

Outdoor stores

Preserves

Processors from the MDC Share the Harvest processor lookup, MDC CWD sampling partners, the MDC commercial permit listing and Yellow Pages; taxidermists, shops and preserves from MDC permits, chain store locators and Yellow Pages (services.json). Checked October 29, 2026; hours were not checked.

Nearest MDC help, Centerville

MDC’s nearest public office to Reynolds County is Piedmont Office; call (573) 469-0899. The MDC Southeast Region has its office at 2302 County Park Dr, Cape Girardeau. Permits sell online, in the MO Hunting app, at vendors and at MDC offices; offices also answer area and managed hunt questions.

Offices from the MDC offices open to the public, the MDC regional offices page and the MDC field office layer (services.json, counties.json). Checked October 29, 2026.

What the calendar holds near Centerville

The 30-mile ring around Centerville holds 1 upcoming event; the kinds are youth managed deer hunt.

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Centerville, answered

Answers from places.json, lands.json, counties.json, services.json and the 2026 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting Regulations; Telecheck from the booklet, hunter orange from booklet p. 4. Checked October 29, 2026.

Leaving Centerville to hunt

Orange in the firearms portions, a notched permit right after the shot and Telecheck by 10 p.m.: the three habits that keep a Missouri deer legal.