COLUMBUS – Ohio’s white-tailed deer hunters concluded the 2019-2020 hunting season by harvesting 184,465 deer, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
Deer hunting in Ohio began Sept. 28, 2019, and concluded Feb. 2, 2020. The final harvest total represents all deer taken during archery, gun, muzzleloader, and youth seasons. During the 2018-2019 deer hunting seasons, 172,670 deer were checked.
Top 10 counties for deer harvest during the 2019-2020 seasons include: Coshocton (6,715), Tuscarawas (5,781), Ashtabula (4,949), Muskingum (4,929), Licking (4,878), Knox (4,746), Guernsey (4,524), Holmes (4,507), Carroll (3,843) and Trumbull (3,668).
Ohio’s youth hunters harvested 6,234 on Nov. 23-24, 2019. During the 2019 week-long and two-day deer-gun seasons, hunters checked in 77,187 deer. Muzzleloader hunters added an additional 10,615 deer from Jan. 4-7, 2020.
On Feb. 2, archery hunters concluded their season with 88,860 deer taken. Archery hunters accounted for 48% of deer checked in 2019-2020. Ohio’s record deer harvest was in 2009-2010, when 261,260 were checked.
By county last 2 years
A list of all white-tailed deer checked by hunters during the 2019-2020 hunting seasons is shown below. The first number following the county’s name shows the harvest numbers for 2019-2020, and the 2018-2019 harvest numbers are in parentheses. Harvest numbers below are subject to change.
Adams: 2,793 (2,965); Allen: 1,118 (878); Ashland: 3,378 (2,962); Ashtabula: 4,949 (4,895); Athens: 3,360 (3,455); Auglaize: 960 (826); Belmont: 2,936 (2,629); Brown: 2,315 (2,278); Butler: 1,454 (1,273); Carroll: 3,843 (3,476); Champaign: 1,266 (1,115); Clark: 761 (748); Clermont: 2,412 (2,308); Clinton: 772 (703); Columbiana: 3,180 (2,799); Coshocton: 6,715 (6,063); Crawford: 1,256 (1,123); Cuyahoga: 903 (930); Darke: 809 (687); Defiance: 1,763 (1,588); Delaware: 1,519 (1,408); Erie: 1,058 (1,021); Fairfield: 1,857 (1,799); Fayette: 340 (290); Franklin: 735 (736); Fulton: 795 (707); Gallia: 2,191 (2,499); Geauga: 1,922 (1,858); Greene: 842 (809); Guernsey: 4,524 (4,307); Hamilton: 1,550 (1,549); Hancock: 1,387 (1,145); Hardin: 1,459 (1,163); Harrison: 3,594 (3,214); Henry: 783 (675); Highland: 2,565 (2,283); Hocking: 3,163 (2,803); Holmes: 4,507 (3,934); Huron: 2,291 (2,104); Jackson: 2,821 (2,855); Jefferson: 2,077 (1,684); Knox: 4,746 (4,271); Lake: 849 (799); Lawrence: 1,552 (1,806); Licking: 4,878 (4,587); Logan: 2,163 (1,949); Lorain: 2,134 (2,080); Lucas: 778 (721); Madison: 555 (484); Mahoning: 1,884 (1,908); Marion: 926 (788); Medina: 2,141 (2,084); Meigs: 2,910 (3,083); Mercer: 814 (674); Miami: 879 (735); Monroe: 2,472 (2,282); Montgomery: 770 (701); Morgan: 2,920 (2,940); Morrow: 1,596 (1,487); Muskingum: 4,929 (4,663); Noble: 2,914 (2,909); Ottawa: 517 (476); Paulding: 1,114 (969); Perry: 2,570 (2,447); Pickaway: 800 (727); Pike: 1,901 (1,877); Portage: 2,503 (2,295); Preble: 1,036 (979); Putnam: 849 (699); Richland: 3,469 (3,263); Ross: 2,974 (2,758); Sandusky: 880 (832); Scioto: 2,030 (2,162); Seneca: 2,054 (1,776); Shelby: 1,100 (901); Stark: 2,848 (2,788); Summit: 1,498 (1,469); Trumbull: 3,668 (3,462); Tuscarawas: 5,781 (5,245); Union: 960 (923); Van Wert: 553 (495); Vinton: 2,439 (2,392); Warren: 1,213 (1,130); Washington: 3,292 (3,110); Wayne: 2,411 (2,082); Williams: 1,660 (1,558); Wood: 1,050 (909); Wyandot: 1,562 (1,451).
