State wildlife area · Wyandot County
Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
9,054 acres · 40.720, -83.300 ↗
Live · updatedInside a CWD Disease Surveillance Area. CWD Disease Surveillance Area (2026-27, OAC 1501:31-19-03) covers west-central Ohio: Allen, Hardin, Marion and Wyandot counties in full, plus named townships of Crawford (Bucyrus, Dallas, Holmes, Tod), Delaware (Marlboro, Troy, Oxford), Hancock (Delaware, Madison, Van Buren), Morrow (Westfield) and Union (Claibourne, Jackson). Allen is newly a full-county DSA for 2026-27. Inside the DSA: baiting/feeding deer is banned, high-risk carcass parts may not leave the DSA except under the carcass rules, and deer taken on set sampling dates must be submitted for CWD testing. No SE-Ohio counties are in the current DSA. The county highlight below is county-level; for the five partial counties, only the named townships are in the DSA — confirm the live DSA map with ODNR before hauling a carcass.
Whitetail Deer
Legal light: 5:56 AM – 9:22 PM ET · 30 min before sunrise to 30 min after sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Whitetail Deer season is closed at this spot today.
FAIR conditions
- 57°F (warm) Above the comfortable band; activity tails off midday
- 10 mph wind A steady breeze covers your movement and noise; deer stay on their feet
- Wind out of the N Pick a stand that keeps your scent off the bedding and approach
- Bright moon Heavy nighttime feeding under a full moon can slow midday movement
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Ducks
Legal light: 5:56 AM – 8:52 PM ET · ½ hour before sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · waterfowl Zone A · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Ducks season is closed at this spot today.
FAIR conditions
- 57°F (warm) Above the comfortable band; activity tails off midday
- 10 mph wind A good breeze keeps birds flying and makes the decoys look alive
- Wind out of the N Set the spread so birds finish into the wind, coming over the guns
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Canada Geese
Legal light: 5:56 AM – 8:52 PM ET · ½ hour before sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · waterfowl Zone A · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Canada Geese season is closed at this spot today.
FAIR conditions
- 57°F (warm) Above the comfortable band; activity tails off midday
- 10 mph wind A good breeze keeps birds flying and makes the decoys look alive
- Wind out of the N Set the spread so birds finish into the wind, coming over the guns
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Mourning Dove
Legal light: 6:26 AM – 8:52 PM ET · sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Mourning Dove season is closed at this spot today.
GOOD conditions
- 57°F (cold) A cold snap and the doves are gone south
- 10 mph wind A light breeze keeps doves trading between fields
- Wind out of the N Doves decoy into the wind; set up with it at your back
- Fair weather Warm, settled days keep doves working the fields
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Squirrel
Legal light: 5:56 AM – 8:52 PM ET · ½ hour before sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Squirrel season is closed at this spot today.
GOOD conditions
- 57°F Right in the comfortable activity band
- 10 mph (light) Calm and quiet; you can hear them cutting and spot the shaking limbs
- Clear & calm Bright, still mornings; squirrels move and you can spot them
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Cottontail Rabbit
Legal light: 6:26 AM – 8:52 PM ET · sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Cottontail Rabbit season is closed at this spot today.
FAIR conditions
- 57°F (warm) Above the comfortable band; activity tails off midday
- 10 mph wind A light breeze is fine
- Bright day A clear day after a cold night gets rabbits out sunning
- Ground Cultivated Crops · 895 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Conditions at the pin
Dawn/dusk low
57°F
the cool hunt window the score uses
Daytime high
82°F
today
Wind
10 mph N
plan your scent
Barometer
1014.2 mb
steady
Moon
100%
full
Sunny
The ground
County herd density
5.91 deer/sq mi
Wyandot County took 2,405 deer last season
Habitat
Cultivated Crops
food + cover edge across the tract
Elevation
895 ft
USGS surface elevation
Access: NW plains prairie/oak-savanna remnant (Wyandot/Marion) 3 mi SW of Harpster. Free public deer hunting; some controlled hunts.
Where it is
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Public-land data: ODNR Find-a-Property (verified 2026-07-27). Conditions from the NWS, USGS and NLCD, recomputed each rebuild.