Montana Elk — Hunting District 640

Montana Hunting District 640 covers 2,392,645 acres and lies 21 miles west of Plentywood and 51 miles north-east of Wolf Point. 15% of it is public land, mostly state trust land (13%) and wildlife refuge (1%). In 2025, hunters took 27 elk here.

Public land:15% Size:2,392,645 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has not offered an elk license in Hunting District 640 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Montana elk hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Hunting District 640 within Montana

Hunting District 640 and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

Private 2,018,435 ac · 84%
State trust land 309,847 ac · 13%
National Wildlife Refuge 30,865 ac · 1%
Tribal 6,220 ac · 0%
BLM 5,503 ac · 0%
County or city land 2,871 ac · 0%
Department of Defense 239 ac · 0%
State land 239 ac · 0%
Bureau of Reclamation 0 ac · 0%
National Park Service 0 ac · 0%
National Forest 0 ac · 0%
Other public 0 ac · 0%

Source: Deer Elk Lion 2026-2027 Hunting District Landcover and Land Ownership Calculations

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Montana's figures blend mandatory reporting with a phone and mail survey. FWP does not publish district-level hunter counts for elk or antelope, so success rates are missing for those.