Woodward County Hunting

Woodward County deer numbers by season

For 2025 the county tally stands at 1,099 deer, placing Woodward County 58th statewide. That is 0.9% of the 124,050 deer ODWC tallied by county, a figure that leaves out WMA harvest. A year earlier the county reported 1,209, so 2025 came in 9% lower.

Chart gaps: 2015 not published (no readable ODWC county table). Public-area harvest sits outside these county figures.

Peak and trough in the data: 1,981 deer (2009) and 666 deer (2014). A typical recent season here, averaged over 10 years, is about 1,166 deer.

Archery produced 18% of the 2025 total and the gun season 77%, while antlerless deer were 415 of 1,099.

Woodward County deer by method, 2016-2025

Back years for Woodward County:

• 19991,154
• 20001,567
• 20011,543
• 20031,868
• 20041,793
• 20051,780
• 20061,689
• 20071,932
• 20081,856
• 20091,981
• 20101,858
• 20111,278
• 20121,189
• 2013846
• 2014666

Woodward County public-area deer harvest

Woodward County harvest of other big game

No figure is shown for years ODWC did not publish as text.

The statewide figure for 2025 is 133,791 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.

Woodward County big game zones and disease rules

Elk hunting in Woodward County

Woodward County is Special Northwest Zone country for elk, which means private acreage, a signed permission and the zone quota. Look up the zone quota (Special Northwest Zone 8) before every elk hunt, because a filled quota closes the zone.

Special Northwest Zone: All private lands in Woodward, Dewey and Ellis counties and Roger Mills County north of SH 33 and 47.

Mule deer reported here: 2 for 2023, 3 for 2024 and 6 for 2025; antlerless mule deer may not be taken with a firearm in the youth or holiday hunts.

Woodward County CWD processing rule

A CWD Selective Surveillance Area (Woodward, Major & Woods County SSA) covers part of Woodward County, with an on-site processing rule. Only antlers, deboned quarters or meat without spinal column, cleaned teeth, finished taxidermy and hides may leave the area. From 2023 to 2024 hunters dropped 26 Woodward County samples in SSA freezers; detections: 0.

Woodward, Major & Woods County SSA: Area bounded by US 183, E County Road 54, US 281, SH 50/50B, US 412 and county roads. Testing: ODWC NW Region Office (Woodward), Mooreland.

Woodward County has a confirmed wild CWD case on the ODWC timeline. 2023: Wild deer about 15 miles east of Woodward.

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.

Woodward County public land and acreage

The table below lists all 3 public areas on our list that reach into Woodward County. Put together, the agency and federal layers trace about 16,951 public acres, near 2.1% of the county. State park and military acres are shown with an asterisk and left out of the public total, because hunting there is generally closed or tightly limited.

Woodward County anchor tracts, largest first

• Hunters reach Hal and Fern Cooper WMA, some 16,120 acres, from Woodward County or from Harper County. Its permitted game runs to deer, doves, turkey and woodcock. Watch for nonresident check-in, non-ambulatory access. Phone for hunting questions: (580) 334-0343.
• Fort Supply WMA is listed as a WMA of about 5,462 acres. The area supports deer, doves, turkey and woodcock by the ODWC listing. Also flagged: wetland units, nonresident check-in, non-ambulatory access. Hunting questions go to (580) 334-0343.
• Acreage for Fort Supply Lake (Corps): not published; all of it is in Woodward County. The Corps lists no hunting acreage for it, and the Tulsa District page could not be read for more detail.

Woodward County Land Access Program tracts

Woodward County has 8 OLAP tracts leased by ODWC from private owners, about 6,166 acres in all. Cover types on the tracts: Mix of canyons (1) and Tallgrass prairie (1). OLAP access runs two hours before sunrise to one hour after sunset, on foot only, with the Land Access Permit ($100 resident / $200 nonresident).

• Woodward County H0113,250 ac
• Woodward County H012997 ac
• Woodward County H005819 ac
• Woodward County H002574 ac
• Woodward County H010202 ac
• Woodward County H001197 ac
• Woodward County H00481 ac
• Woodward County H00346 ac

Woodward County hunters can also try these

• Major County WMAMajor County; centre to centre 19 miles (210 ac)
• Cimarron Bluff WMAHarper County; centre to centre 27 miles (3,590 ac)
• Dewey County WMADewey County; centre to centre 32 miles (212 ac)
• Sandhills WMAWoods County; centre to centre 33 miles (5,212 ac)
• Cimarron Hills WMAWoods County; centre to centre 35 miles (4,200 ac)

* Not in the public 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.

Woodward County on the Oklahoma hunting calendar

Kinds on file here: bird dog championship. Count: 2 upcoming listings.

Scheduled dates

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Woodward County reminders for 2026-27

Get written permission before hunting private land in Woodward County, and for elk it is required by rule.

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