South Dakota Deer — ERD-44A
LINCOLN COUNTY, excluding Newton Hills State Park
South Dakota ERD-44A covers 370,314 acres and lies 7 miles west of Canton. 1% of it is public land, mostly state land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 23 white-tailed deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in ERD-44A, 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-44A
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 366,209 ac · 99%
- State land 3,925 ac · 1%
- Other public 179 ac · 0%
- State trust land 0 ac · 0%
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 | 23 |
| 2024 | 50 |
| 2023 | 85 |
Mule Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 23 · 100%
Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025