Hunting landowners and lease holders

Where is your hunting property?

Free printable hunting property map: boundary, contours, aerial photo, water, and the stands, food plots and trails you mark.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door

ePlan fills in

  • Property boundary
  • Contours
  • Aerial imagery
  • Streams and ponds
  • Land cover

How it works

Hunting property map, from one answer

  1. Find your property and mark stands, plots and trails.
  2. ePlan lays your marks over the boundary, contours and aerial photo.
  3. Print the map free. Managing Texas land for wildlife? Start a Texas wildlife management plan (PWD-885).

What you get

Hunting property map and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Texas Wildlife Exemption Plan door.

The first draft

Hunting property map (free)

  1. Boundary and acreage
  2. Contours and terrain
  3. Aerial photo
  4. Water: streams, ponds and tanks
  5. Stands, plots, trails and gates
  6. Legend, scale and north arrow
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Texas wildlife management plan (PWD-885)

  1. Property and wildlife goals
  2. Three or more of the seven practices
  3. Habitat control, including grazing
  4. Census counts and records

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

100 feet

is the farthest apart purple paint marks can be on Texas forest land to count as no-trespass notice (1,000 feet on other land)
Source: Tex. Penal Code 30.05

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft your Texas wildlife management plan on TPWD form PWD-885, with three of seven practices set up for your land. Free to read, pay to download.

Texas Wildlife Exemption Plan →

Questions

Hunting Property Map: what people ask

How do I post land with purple paint in Texas?

Paint vertical marks at least 8 inches long and 1 inch wide, with the bottom 3 to 5 feet off the ground, where anyone approaching can see them: no more than 100 feet apart on forest land, or 1,000 feet apart on other land.

Source: statutes.capitol.texas.gov

Can hunting land get a Texas wildlife valuation?

Yes, if it was already appraised as open-space ag land or timberland and is actively used for wildlife management in at least three of seven specific ways, to sustain a breeding, migrating or wintering population of native wildlife.

Source: comptroller.texas.gov

Are USGS topo maps of my land free?

Yes. USGS topographic maps first published on paper from 1884 to 2006 are scanned and free to download through topoView, and newer US Topo maps are digital.

Source: ngmdb.usgs.gov

The rules this door follows