Garfield County Hunting

Deer checked in Garfield County, year by year

Garfield County ranked 52nd among Oklahoma counties in 2025 with 1,176 deer reported. County rows in the report add up to 124,050 deer, so Garfield County supplied about 0.9% of them. Compared with the 1,223 deer of 2024, the count fell by 4%.

Gaps in the bars: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). These exclude the WMA table.

Since 1999 the count has ranged from 706 (1999) up to 1,223 (2024). Mean harvest since 2016 is roughly 967 deer across 10 reported seasons.

528 antlerless deer (45%) were in the 2025 count, and the gun season delivered 819.

How Garfield County deer were taken each year

The Garfield County record from 1999:

• 1999706
• 2000931
• 2001987
• 2003995
• 2004815
• 2005864
• 20061,052
• 2007847
• 2008951
• 20091,055
• 2010980
• 2011954
• 2012996
• 2013757
• 2014957

Deer from WMAs and lakes in Garfield County

More Garfield County big game figures

Bear tables for 2021 and 2023 were not found as text.

Statewide, Oklahoma hunters checked 133,791 deer in 2025-26, counting WMA and OLAP deer.

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.

Garfield County elk and bear country

Garfield County elk zone

ODWC assigns Garfield County to the Northwest Zone; elk there are a private-land hunt with written landowner permission. ODWC caps the harvest by zone (Northwest Zone 8) and reports each elk within 24 hours through E-Check.

Northwest Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and west of I-35, excluding the Panhandle and Special Northwest zones.

ODWC has drawn no CWD surveillance area in Garfield County. The carcass import rule for deer and elk shot out of state applies everywhere.

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. Checked November 3, 2026.

Garfield County lands where the public may hunt

Our Oklahoma land list has 1 hunting area reaching into Garfield County; the largest is Drummond Flats Wildlife Management Area at 5,122 acres. Mapped public land adds up to roughly 5,409 acres, 0.8% of the county. Starred figures (state parks, military land) sit outside the hunting total: state parks are generally closed and military ground is restricted.

Garfield County areas with the most acres

• Drummond Flats WMA shows up on our list as a WMA measured at 5,122 acres. Species on record there: deer, doves, woodcock and pheasants. The record adds wetland units, nonresident check-in, non-ambulatory access. The area page gives (580) 541-5319 for hunting.

Garfield County overflow: public ground over the line

• Salt Plains NWR32,464 acres in Alfalfa County, roughly 35 miles away

* Listed for reference, outside the hunting total.

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.

Garfield County closing notes

ODWC can change dates after the regulations print; recheck the season pages before a Garfield County hunt.

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