--- title: "Boom Towns" date: "2007-09-18" modified: "2007-09-18" authors: - name: "Bob Butz" link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/bob-butz/" url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/bob-butz/2007/09/boom-towns/" categories: - "Hunting" --- # Boom Towns ![]() *Outdoor Life Online Editor* **North Dakota** **Dog Density:** There are 200,000 animals on 20,000 acres\* of public and private land in western North Dakota. **Hot spots:** South- central North Dakota and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation; southwestern part of the state near Dickinson and Watford. **Contact:** For shooting opportunities in the southwest, call the Medora Ranger District office in Dickinson (701-225-5151) or the McKenzie Ranger District office in Watford (701-842-2393). For Standing Rock Reservation, call 701-854-7236. \*\*South Dakota \*\* \*\*Dog Density: \*\*No estimate for private land. Public land estimated at 10,000 animals on 1,000 acres. **Hot spots:** Southwestern South Dakota, near the town of Wall; around the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands on the Nebraska border. **Contact:** To find private landowners in southwestern South Dakota who welcome hunters, contact the Wall Ranger District office (605-279-2125) or the Wall Chamber of Commerce (605-279-2665). **Nebraska** \*\*Dog Density: \*\*1.4 million dogs on 137,000 acres **Hot spots:** Custer and Lincoln counties in central Nebraska; Chase and Dundy counties west of McCook in the southwest; Panhandle counties of Box Butte, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Cheyenne and Deuel. \*\*Contact: \*\*Call the Chamber of Commerce offices in the above counties for private landowners who offer access to prairie dog hunters. **Oklahoma** **Dog Density:** 320,000 dogs on 32,000 acres \*\*Hot spots: \*\*Cimarron, Texas and Beaver counties **Contact:** For information on private lands where prairie dog hunters are welcome, contact the Cimarron County Chamber of Commerce (580-554-3344), Guymon Chamber of Commerce (580-338-3376), Beaver County Chamber of Commerce (580-625-4726), Hooker Chamber of Commerce (580-652-2809) or Laverne Chamber of Commerce (580-921-3612). *\*Biologists tabulate populations based on the combined acreage of prairie dog towns. On average, 10 prairie dogs occupy one square acre.*