Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek
Utah Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep
Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery and Uintah counties and covers about 3,471 square miles. Ground runs from 4,750 to 8,686 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek
Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery and Uintah counties and covers about 3,471 square miles. Ground runs from 4,750 to 8,686 feet. UDWR's harvest estimates put bighorn sheep success here as high as 72%. Most of the unit is private, so access comes before tactics. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.
Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek
UDWR draws an exact line around unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek and says nothing about where the bighorn sheep stand inside it. So the ground below is the unit's own and the read on where to start is ours, labelled as such. The unit lies in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery and Uintah counties. It runs to about 3,471 square miles.
The lines of the unit: Water Canyon, Bruin Point and Range Creek
UDWR draws unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek in Carbon, Duchesne, Emery and Uintah counties with a boundary that runs on Water Canyon, Bruin Point, Range Creek and Green River, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. Those features are what you will check against the map all week, and the divides among them are the ones that matter.
High ground inside the line: Mount Bartles, Range Valley Mountain and Cottonwood Ridge
Named high points inside the unit include Mount Bartles at 9,923 feet, Range Valley Mountain at 9,834 feet, Cottonwood Ridge at 9,691 feet, Bishop Ridge at 9,663 feet and South Ridge at 9,529 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.
Holding ground: Warren Canyon, Jennie Canyon and Dalton Canyon
Below them sit Warren Canyon at 8,101 feet, Jennie Canyon at 8,087 feet, Dalton Canyon at 8,040 feet, Buck Canyon at 8,010 feet and Bull Flat at 7,988 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Reaching the edge of one before light beats reaching its middle at noon.
Water: Dancehall Spring, Mine Hollow Spring and Nutters Spring
Named sources include Dancehall Spring, Mine Hollow Spring, Nutters Spring, Downard Spring, West Spring and Daddy Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.
Before you apply: who owns this unit
A UDWR permit does not authorise hunting on Native American trust lands, on a CWMU without that CWMU's own permit, or on National Park land, and written permission is required to hunt private land. Our ownership read for this unit is approximate — it comes out as National Forest 60%, Private / Other 17%, BLM 15% and State Trust 8%, so treat it as a starting point and check a current land-status layer before you plan a route. The unit runs from 4,750 feet to 8,686 feet, averaging 6,787 — enough relief to separate summer range from winter range.
Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek terrain and land status
Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up
The lay of it
- 4,750–8,686 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 6,787 ft ; peaks can run higher.
- 3,471.4 sq mi inside the boundary. Big enough that picking one drainage beats driving three.
Who owns the ground
- National Forest — 60%
- BLM — 15%
- State Trust — 8%
- Private / Other — 17%
Roughly 83% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.
Water on the ground
Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.
Named features inside the unit
Glass from: Mount Bartles (9,923 ft), Range Valley Mountain (9,834 ft), Cottonwood Ridge (9,691 ft), Went Ridge (9,291 ft)
Holding ground: Cracker Grove (8,772 ft), Wide Hollow (8,120 ft), Bogart Canyon (7,972 ft), Dancehall Spring, Mine Hollow Spring
Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.
How to Hunt Bighorn Sheep in Unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek
Bighorn Sheep Success Rates
UDWR's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. UDWR's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.
Bighorn Sheep Draw Odds
| Season | Tags | Applicants | Draw % | Pts Req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rifle — Limited Entry ram only (resident) | 4 | 470 | 0.9% | 13 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (resident) | 4 | 528 | 0.8% | 30 |
| Any Legal Weapon — Once-in-a-lifetime bull/buck only (nonresident) | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 30 |
Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number.
Open in Draw Odds EngineUDWR's 2025 draw recap for bighorn sheep in unit Nine Mile, Jack Creek, with resident and nonresident kept apart because the two draw from different licence pools:
- Any Legal Weapon, Once-in-a-lifetime, Bull/Buck Only, resident: 528 applicants for 4 licences, 0.8% drawn, 30 bonus points needed
Utah draws on bonus points in a weighted random draw, not in point order, so the figure above is what it happened to take that year rather than a threshold you can plan to reach. More points buy more chances, never a turn. These are the figures as published in UDWR's own draw recap; we have not yet checked them back against the agency row by row, so confirm the hunt you mean to apply for before you count on a number.
Unit Logistics & Expectations
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Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.
- UDWR Hunt Boundaries — boundary descriptions from the Hunt Planner boundary layer — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in, UDWR's private-land note for the unit · accessed 2026-10-24
- UDWR DWR_Hunt_Boundaries_combined feature service — all 687 published hunt boundaries, including the CWMUs — Utah Division of Wildlife Resources · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24