Texas Deer · Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit
Texas Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit covers 575 acres and lies 27 miles south-west of College Station and 59 miles east of Pflugerville. 100% of it is public land, mostly military (97%) and other public land (3%). In 2025, 15 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 16 (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, GDA-BC, put up 12 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
1 license
first choice, NR
not published
100% Other public
575 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GDA-BC | Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit | 1% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Open Jul 1 – Aug 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 15 | 16 | — |
| 2024 (summed) | 12 | 11 | 92% |
| 2023 (summed) | 12 | 22 | — |
| 2021 (summed) | 14 | 16 | — |
| 2020 (summed) | 14 | 16 | — |
| 2019 (summed) | 15 | 27 | — |
| 2018 (summed) | 12 | 10 | 83% |
| 2017 (summed) | 11 | 7 | 64% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer | 15 | 16 | 87% |
2025 split: firearm 16 (100%) (more than one per hunter)
What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.
The Ground
| Department of Defense | 559 ac | 97% |
| Other public | 16 ac | 3% |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads.
What the Agency Says About the Area
TPWD hunt area type: State Park Unit; 2,365 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 14
- TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Drawn Hunts fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Outdoor Annual fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2021-22 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2020-21 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2019-20 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2018-19 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2017-18 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 State Parks Boundaries boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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