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Water in Apache County
What the state and federal record says about water here, before you look at any particular piece of ground. Every finding names the agency it came from.
- 7,701 Wells on record across 10,340 square miles
- 318 ft Well depth middle value across 1,125 of 10,340 square miles
- 93 ft Depth to water middle value across 21 of 10,340 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Apache County by the square mile
Every finding on this page is one number for the whole county. These are the same records placed on the ground they came from.
Wells on record. Every well ADWR has a record of, exempt and non-exempt together.
- none on record (bare ground)
- up to 1
- 2
- 3 to 4
- 5 to 10
- 11 to 40
- over 40
10,340 surveyed sections, drawn 3 by 3 miles to a square. The shading is scaled against every county in Arizona, so a colour means the same thing on any of these pages. The outline is the county boundary from the Census Bureau: ground inside the line and outside the shading is ground nobody has drilled, filed on or addressed. Aerial imagery is the USGS National Map.
Stands out
FEMA has never determined the flood risk for most of this county
100% of the county is FEMA Zone D, which means undetermined hazard, against 56% across the state. Nobody has looked. That is a different thing from being studied and coming back outside the floodplain, and a lender or an insurer will treat the two differently.
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer 1 of 15 counties
100% here 1st of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Wells here come in weak
The typical well makes 15 gallons a minute, against 20 gpm across the state. A household needs roughly 5 to 10, so this is liveable and it will not support irrigation, livestock at scale, or a second home on the same well.
ADWR wells registry 2 of 15 counties
15 gpm here 2nd of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Nearly every monitored well here is falling
80% of the 30 wells ADWR has monitored for twenty years are declining rather than recovering. This counts wells, not feet: a county can be losing only a foot a year and still have almost every well in it pointing the same way, which is what says the drawdown is regional rather than one heavy pumper.
ADWR groundwater level change 3 of 15 counties
80% here 3rd of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Wells here have to go a long way down
The typical well is 318 feet deep, across 7,701 wells on record. Drilling is priced by the foot and the casing with it, so depth is the first line of any estimate for putting water on raw land, and it is the number a seller is least likely to volunteer.
ADWR wells registry 9 of 15 counties
318 ft here 9th of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Much of this county is tribal land
67% of the county is tribal land, where water rights are federally reserved and settled separately from the state system.
Arizona general stream adjudications 2 of 13 counties
67% here 2nd of 13 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
This is the county. Your question is probably a property.
None of the above is about a particular parcel. Water is not parcel-shaped: the ditch serving the ground runs through other people's land and the senior right that curtails it sits somewhere else, which is why the state files by survey section rather than by property. Check an address and you get the square mile it sits in, with the wells, the rights and what was actually diverted.
Check a property in Apache County