Rogers County Hunting

Deer checked in Rogers County, year by year

Rogers County ranked 6th among Oklahoma counties in 2025 with 2,928 deer reported. County rows in the report add up to 124,050 deer, so Rogers County supplied about 2.4% of them. Compared with the 2,842 deer of 2024, the count rose by 3%.

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

Since 1999 the count has ranged from 1,532 (2013) up to 3,181 (2022). Mean harvest since 2016 is roughly 2,504 deer across 10 reported seasons.

1,364 antlerless deer (47%) were in the 2025 count, and the gun season delivered 1,581.

How Rogers County deer were taken each year

The Rogers County record from 1999:

• 19991,659
• 20001,856
• 20012,013
• 20031,950
• 20041,796
• 20051,824
• 20062,002
• 20071,625
• 20081,774
• 20091,939
• 20101,746
• 20112,091
• 20121,879
• 20131,532
• 20141,770

Deer from WMAs and lakes in Rogers County

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.

Rogers County elk and bear country

Rogers County elk zone

ODWC assigns Rogers County to the Northeast Zone; elk there are a private-land hunt with written landowner permission. ODWC caps the harvest by zone (Northeast Zone 20) and reports each elk within 24 hours through E-Check.

Northeast Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and east of I-35.

ODWC has drawn no CWD surveillance area in Rogers 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.

Rogers County lands where the public may hunt

Our Oklahoma land list has 3 hunting areas reaching into Rogers County; the largest is Oologah Wildlife Management Area at 14,086 acres. Mapped public land adds up to roughly 12,891 acres, 3.0% of the county. Starred figures (state parks, military land) sit outside the hunting total: state parks are generally closed and military ground is restricted.

Rogers County areas with the most acres

• Oologah WMA shows up on our list as a WMA measured at 14,086 acres that spills into Nowata County. Species on record there: doves, turkey, deer and quail. The record adds wetland units, nonresident check-in, non-ambulatory access. The area page gives (918) 629-5286 for hunting.
• Oologah Lake (Corps) (Corps lake) stretches over the line into Nowata County. Watch for controlled hunts. The Corps lists no hunting acreage for it, and the Tulsa District page could not be read for more detail. Controlled hunts in 2025: 1.
• Robert S. Kerr Reservoir (Corps) is listed as a corps lake, and its boundary takes in Sequoyah County, Haskell County and Muskogee County too. No acreage is published for Corps hunting land here; the Tulsa District page could not be read.

Rogers County overflow: public ground over the line

• Candy Creek WMA605 acres in Osage County, roughly 25 miles away
• Fort Gibson PHA21,798 acres in Cherokee County and Mayes County, roughly 31 miles away
• Fort Gibson WMA25,298 acres in Cherokee County and Mayes County, roughly 31 miles away
• Skiatook Lake (Corps)Osage County, roughly 32 miles away
• Spavinaw Game Management Area11,986 acres in Delaware County and Mayes County, roughly 34 miles away
• Spavinaw PHA2,330 acres in Delaware County, roughly 34 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.

Hunts, banquets and trials in Rogers County

On November 3, 2026 the county showed 2 upcoming listings and 2 published results, covering DU chapter dinner, ODWC controlled hunt and bird dog championship. Only drawn permit holders take part in the 1 controlled hunt listed.

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Rogers County closing notes

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

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