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Also, see Deer Creek Wildlife Area and Fayette County Birding Drive
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=Deer Creek Wildlife Area (Fayette County)= Pancoastburg, Ohio 43160 Deer Creek Wildlife Area webpage Deer Creek Wildlife Area map Deer Creek Lake webpage Deer Creek State Park website

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Deer Creek Wildlife Area (Fayette Co.)
Coordinates: 39.634316, -83.26551 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Deer Creek Wildlife Area--Yankeetown Rd.
Coordinates: 39.659347, -83.2617652 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Deer Creek Wildlife Area
The 4,220-acre wildlife area is in central Ohio, four miles south of Mount Sterling on OH-207 and adjacent to the 1,277-acre Deer Creek Lake. It can be reached from the east and west by US-22 and OH-56, and from the north and south by US-62 and OH-3, OH-104, and OH-207.

The topography is flat to slightly rolling. The soils are mostly well drained and of medium to high productivity. Approximately 1,000 acres of row crops and small grains are under cultivation annually. Controlled burning and native warm season grass plantings have also been introduced as part of the wildlife management program.

About 25 percent of the wildlife area consists of second growth hardwoods and brush in advanced stages of succession. The timber stand is mainly on the east side of Deer Creek It includes oak, hickory, elm, black walnut, ash, maple, locust, sycamore, and cottonwood. Index of Ohio's trees from the Division of Forestry. The uncropped remainder of the area is in a permanent meadow, reverting fields, wildlife food plots, and prairie grasses.

Deer Creek Lake construction began in 1965 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and was completed in 1968. Of the 7,575 acres, 6,875 are leased to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for fish, wildlife, and general recreation purposes. Deer Creek State Park lies to the south and east of the lake and provides camping, picnicking, and boat launching facilities for the hunter and angler. Public hunting is permitted on some of the undeveloped 3,165 acres controlled by the Division of Parks and Recreation, and on all property controlled by the Division of Wildlife.

Wildlife management plans provide for the maintenance and protection of existing woodlands, establishment of field sizes and crop rotations beneficial to wildlife, improvement of open fields for wildlife nesting, and the establishment of annual food patches for general wildlife use. Permanent wildlife cover has been provided through the planting of native prairie grasses such as switchgrass, big bluestem, and Indiangrass. From Deer Creek Wildlife Area webpage

Greater Yellowlegs Photo by Carl Winstead

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