South Dakota Deer — ERD-36A
HUGHES COUNTY, excluding Farm Island Recreation Area, LaFramboise Island
South Dakota ERD-36A covers 512,136 acres and lies 16 miles east of Pierre and 50 miles west of Miller. 3% of it is public land, mostly state land (2%) and other public land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 169 white-tailed deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in ERD-36A, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
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Other licenses valid in ERD-36A
Not in the table above because they had no result in the draw.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 497,230 ac · 97%
- State land 7,918 ac · 2%
- Other public 6,602 ac · 1%
- State trust land 385 ac · 0%
Nearby areas
- ERD-59B — SULLY COUNTY, east of US 83
- WRD-45D — LYMAN, STANLEY, and JONES counties all public land and private land
- WRD-45C — LYMAN and STANLEY counties
- ERD-59A — SULLY COUNTY, west of US 83
- ERD-38A — Hyde County
- WRD-45A — LYMAN COUNTY, west of SD 47 and south of southern boundary of the Lower Brule In
How the hunting has gone
What South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. South Dakota's figures are Game, Fish and Parks post-season survey estimates, expanded from mandatory hunter reporting by the response rate — not a count of animals checked in.
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 |
| 2024 | 150 |
| 2023 | 165 |
Mule Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 |
| 2024 | 49 |
| 2023 | 49 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 219 · 100%
Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025