Cross County, Arkansas
Unit info
- Game species
- White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey, Waterfowl
- Group
- Delta & Grand Prairie
- Area
- N/A
- Public land
- N/A
White-tailed Deer — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 846
Draw odds for White-tailed Deeraren't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
Season & harvest data is published for White-tailed Deer so far. Wild Turkey, Waterfowl also occur here — that data can be added as the community contributes.
About this unit
AI-compiled · sourcedCross County covers northeastern Arkansas Delta territory where flat agricultural land and the Cache River corridor combine to produce excellent waterfowl and deer hunting. The Cache River National Wildlife Refuge has management units in the county, providing federally managed public hunting for both ducks and deer in quality bottomland hardwood habitat. Crop fields, moist-soil impoundments, and bottomland timber create diverse habitat that holds birds and deer through the full hunting season.
Flat alluvial Delta plain with the Cache River corridor running north-south through the county. Bottomland hardwoods in the river drainage give way to large-scale row-crop agriculture on the surrounding uplands. Oxbow lakes and drainage canals provide additional wetland habitat structure.
Moderate for deer. Waterfowl hunting pressure rises during peak migration particularly on the public NWR units where hunter numbers are actively managed through reservation systems.
OTC under standard Arkansas regulations. Agricultural setting rewards early-season food-plot and field-edge hunting across the county.
Waterfowl hunting in the Cache River bottoms and surrounding flooded agricultural land is excellent with mallards and wood ducks as primary targets. Spring turkey hunting is available in the bottomland timber patches scattered through the county.
The Cache River NWR units offer one of the more accessible public-land waterfowl hunting experiences in NE Arkansas. Big-bodied Delta bucks show up along the Cache River corridor particularly in the mast-producing bottomland hardwoods during fall.
Questions, tips & discussion
Ask anything about Cross County— or drop a tip or trick: access points, where game holds, glassing spots, conditions, crowding, gear that worked. This is where the unit's species-specific intel gets built, hunter by hunter.
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Boundaries: AGFC county-based deer management units. Community info last updated 16d ago.