Texas Deer — Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit

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 — more than one animal per hunter. The 2025 draw put up 12 tags here.

Tags (2025):12 Hunter success (2025):100% Public land:100% Size:575 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

GDA-BC Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit 12 tags

1% Point builder

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
GDA-BC ↗ Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit	1% Point builder	—	12 / —	Dec 2 – Jan 8, 2027

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$3	$3	$318

Application window: opens Jul 1, closes Aug 15, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

The country

Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit within Texas

Lake Somerville SP - Birch Creek Unit 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

Department of Defense 559 ac · 97%
Other public 16 ac · 3%

Source: PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads - Texas file geodatabase (PADUS4_0Fee_State_TX)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department 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.