Seminole County Hunting

Seminole County harvest record from ODWC reports

In the most recent report year, 2025, Seminole County hunters reported 2,089 deer (21st of 77). Its share of the 124,050-deer county total is close to 1.7%. The 2024 figure was 1,669, a 25% gain into 2025.

Years without a bar: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). County rows leave out deer taken on WMAs.

The largest reported year is 2025 at 2,089; the smallest, 1999, came to 665. Over the 10 published years from 2016 on, the county averaged 1,564 deer a season.

Bows took 592, muzzleloaders 270 and centerfire guns 1,227 deer here in 2025.

Seminole County harvest split by weapon

Pre-2016 Seminole County totals:

• 1999665
• 2000836
• 2001923
• 2003849
• 2004807
• 2005811
• 20061,170
• 2007905
• 20081,062
• 20091,152
• 2010998
• 20111,100
• 20121,076
• 2013702
• 20141,316

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.

Seminole County elk, bear, pronghorn and CWD

Private-land elk in Seminole County

Parts of Seminole County fall in the Northeast Zone and Southeast Zone; elk hunting in any of them needs private ground and written permission. Elk quotas (Northeast Zone 20 and Southeast Zone 5) close a zone early when they fill; E-Check each elk within a day.

Northeast Zone: Private lands north of I-40 and east of I-35. Southeast Zone: Private lands south of I-40 and east of I-35 (Carter/Murray east of I-35 are the Special Southeast Zone).

The CWD processing rule is limited to the surveillance areas, none of which is in Seminole County; out-of-state carcasses stay banned statewide.

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.

Seminole County WMAs, lakes and walk-in land

Our land list has no WMA, lake or refuge in Seminole County, only OLAP walk-in tracts. The WMA, refuge, Corps and federal layers hold nothing for this county.

OLAP walk-in tracts in Seminole County

Walk-in hunters in Seminole County can use 1 OLAP tract covering some 60 acres. Habitat listed on the OLAP layer: Deciduous forest (1). The Land Access Permit ($100 resident / $200 nonresident) covers OLAP; elk hunting is not allowed on the tracts.

• Seminole County (limited access) LA00160 ac

Seminole County neighbours with public land

• Lexington WMAin Cleveland County (9,512 ac), 35 miles from the middle of Seminole County
• Deep Fork WMAin Creek County and Okfuskee County (12,820 ac), 35 miles from the middle of Seminole County
• McAlester Army Ammunition Plantin Pittsburg County (44,800 ac), 44 miles from the middle of Seminole County

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.

Seminole County events and results

This county lists 1 upcoming listing and 1 published result; the kinds are NWTF banquet and UKC nite hunt.

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Seminole 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.