Arizona ยท county water record
Water in Coconino 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.
- 5,782 Wells on record across 18,800 square miles
- 500 ft Well depth middle value across 658 of 18,800 square miles
- 284 ft Depth to water middle value across 35 of 18,800 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Coconino 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
18,800 surveyed sections, drawn 4 by 4 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.
Worth knowing
A lot of well registrations here have been cancelled
27% of well records are cancelled, against 20% across the state. A cancelled registration is not a well you can use.
ADWR wells registry 2 of 15 counties
27% here 2nd of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
The water here stands a long way below the surface
The water table sits 284 feet down in the typical square mile, against 150 ft across the state. That is not the depth of the hole, it is where the water stands in it, and it sets the pump, the lift and the power bill for as long as the well runs.
ADWR groundwater level change 2 of 15 counties
284 ft here 2nd 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
Wells here have to go a long way down
The typical well is 500 feet deep, across 5,782 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 3 of 15 counties
500 ft here 3rd 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
42% of the county is tribal land, where water rights are federally reserved and settled separately from the state system.
Arizona general stream adjudications 4 of 13 counties
42% here 4th of 13 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
The water table here recovered and has started falling again
Over twenty years the water table is up 1.9 feet, which reads as a county that came back. The last ten years run the other way at -1.2 feet. Anyone quoting the twenty-year figure is quoting a recovery that has already reversed.
0.2 ft/yr here The bar is the whole county and the fill is this county's share.
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 Coconino County