Cimarron County Hunting

Cimarron County harvest record from ODWC reports

In the most recent report year, 2025, Cimarron County hunters reported 142 deer (77th of 77). Its share of the 124,050-deer county total is close to 0.1%. The 2024 figure was 121, a 17% gain into 2025.

Years without a bar: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table); 2016 not readable for this county in the ODWC table image; 2018 not readable for this county in the ODWC table image. County rows leave out deer taken on WMAs.

The largest reported year is 2008 at 186; the smallest, 2022, came to 105. Over the 8 published years from 2016 on, the county averaged 126 deer a season.

Bows took 19, muzzleloaders 13 and centerfire guns 110 deer here in 2025.

Cimarron County harvest split by weapon

Pre-2016 Cimarron County totals:

• 1999130
• 2000146
• 2001106
• 2003113
• 2004115
• 2005127
• 2006143
• 2007164
• 2008186
• 2009172
• 2010183
• 2011133
• 2012110
• 2013113
• 2014122

Cimarron County areas in the ODWC public-land table

Cimarron County non-whitetail harvest

Absent years are not published in readable form.

The 2025-26 statewide deer total, public land included, was 133,791.

County deer by year from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports (report index; 2025 2025-26 report, 2024 2024-25 report, 2016-2023 tables such as 2019-20 Table 1, 1999-2011 county PDFs); public-area deer from the 2025-26 public land table; statewide totals from the 2025-26 Big Game Report. OCR years keep only rows whose columns sum to the printed total. Checked November 3, 2026.

Cimarron County elk, bear, pronghorn and CWD

Private-land elk in Cimarron County

Cimarron County lies in the Panhandle Zone for elk, where hunting is legal only on private land with the owner's written permission. Elk quotas (Panhandle Zone 80) close a zone early when they fill; E-Check each elk within a day.

Panhandle Zone: All private lands in Beaver, Cimarron and Texas counties.

Cimarron County and the pronghorn area

ODWC opens pronghorn in Cimarron County in full. Gun hunts need a landowner permit or a drawn controlled hunt permit; archery is open with an antelope license. Reported pronghorn: 107 for 2022, 66 for 2023, 56 for 2024 and 55 for 2025.

Cimarron County shows mule deer in the ODWC tables: 74 in 2023, 77 in 2024 and 107 in 2025.

Cimarron County CWD rules

The Cimarron County SSA reaches Cimarron County; carcasses from inside the line have to be broken down before they travel. Carry out boned meat, clean antlers or skull plates, teeth, hides or finished taxidermy, nothing else. Voluntary freezer drop-offs from Cimarron County posted on the SSA results page total 17 samples from 2023 to 2025, with 1 detected.

Cimarron County SSA: From the NM line near Mexhoma east to Boise City, then southeast along US 287 to the TX line near Kerrick; all of Cimarron County south and west of those lines. Testing: Boise City.

Cimarron County is one of three Oklahoma counties with CWD confirmed in a wild deer. 2022: Road-killed deer 2.5 miles south of the OK-TX border near Felt (Texas) led to the first SSA. 2024: Deer near Felt tested positive; Cimarron SSA expanded. 2025: CWD confirmed in a wild deer in the Panhandle; the 2025-26 Big Game Report calls the Cimarron case the first hunter-harvested positive (sample TEX201, submitted Nov. 25, 2025, Detected).

Cy Curtis category leaders from Cimarron County: typical mule deer (191 7/8, archery, 2014); non-typical mule deer (226 4/8, gun, 2016); pronghorn (85, gun, 2006).

Elk zones and quotas from the ODWC elk regulations; bear area from the ODWC bear page; pronghorn from the ODWC antelope page; CWD areas and rules from the ODWC SSA page and ODWC CWD page; harvest figures from the ODWC Big Game Harvest Reports; records from the Cy Curtis records. Checked November 3, 2026.

Cimarron County WMAs, lakes and walk-in land

Cimarron County holds 2 listed public places open to some hunting, led by Rita Blanca National Grassland (Oklahoma) (15,655 acres). By GIS measure about 1.4% of Cimarron County, some 16,374 acres, is public. Acres marked * are not counted as public hunting land.

Cimarron County heavyweight hunting areas

• Acreage for Rita Blanca National Grassland (Oklahoma): 15,655; all of it is in Cimarron County. Extra details: CWD SSA.
• With 15,575 acres on the books, Rita Blanca WMA is one more choice for Cimarron County hunters. Its permitted game runs to pronghorn, deer, doves and turkey. The record adds nonresident check-in, CWD SSA. The area page gives (806) 339-5175 for hunting.

OLAP walk-in tracts in Cimarron County

Walk-in hunters in Cimarron County can use 51 OLAP tracts covering some 23,600 acres. Habitat listed on the OLAP layer: Cropland (24), Crops (15) and CRP Grassland (6). The Land Access Permit ($100 resident / $200 nonresident) covers OLAP; elk hunting is not allowed on the tracts.

• Cimarron County H0602,320 ac
• Cimarron County H0211,515 ac
• Cimarron County H0431,283 ac
• Cimarron County H0741,120 ac
• Cimarron County H019960 ac
• Cimarron County H078960 ac
• Cimarron County H057800 ac
• Cimarron County H029681 ac

* Excluded from the public figure.

Areas from our Oklahoma land list (ODWC where to hunt area pages, the ODWC OLAP rules and OLAP layer, USFS, USFWS, Corps and NPS records); acres by kind from the ODWC Public WMA Boundaries layer, USFS, USFWS, USACE Tulsa District and PAD-US layers (GIS measures, not official acreages, lake surfaces removed). Checked November 3, 2026.

Cimarron County trip reminders

This page tracks the 2026-27 license year only, and the ODWC text governs wherever the two disagree.

Sources: 2026-2027 Oklahoma Fishing & Hunting Regulations, ODWC hunting, Census and the sources in each section. Checked November 3, 2026.