South Dakota Deer — ERD-59A
SULLY COUNTY, west of US 83
South Dakota ERD-59A covers 376,394 acres and lies 24 miles north of Pierre and 47 miles south-east of Eagle Butte. 5% of it is public land, mostly state land (4%) and other public land (1%). In 2025, hunters took 64 white-tailed deer here.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in ERD-59A, 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-59A
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 358,828 ac · 95%
- State land 13,268 ac · 4%
- Other public 2,392 ac · 1%
- State trust land 1,905 ac · 1%
Nearby areas
- ERD-36A — HUGHES COUNTY, excluding Farm Island Recreation Area, LaFramboise Island
- ERD-59B — SULLY COUNTY, east of US 83
- ERD-54A — Potter County
- WRD-58A — STANLEY COUNTY, except those areas in 45C and 45D
- WRD-58D — Stanley County
- WRD-45D — LYMAN, STANLEY, and JONES counties all public land and private land
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 | 64 |
| 2024 | 110 |
| 2023 | 108 |
Mule Deer
| Season | Harvest |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 |
| 2024 | 43 |
| 2023 | 48 |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Firearm 107 · 100%
Harvest: Deer Harvest (Hunting/Harvest_Maps MapServer, layer 5) — per-unit post-season harvest, 2023-2025