Arizona ยท county water record
Water in Graham 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.
- 6,608 Wells on record across 4,683 square miles
- 170 ft Well depth middle value across 720 of 4,683 square miles
- 61 ft Depth to water middle value across 21 of 4,683 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Graham 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
4,683 surveyed sections, drawn 2 by 2 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
The water table here has dropped a long way in twenty years
The median monitored well is -16 feet lower than it was twenty years ago, against -2 ft across the state, across 33 wells. A well drilled to yesterday's depth may need deepening.
ADWR groundwater level change 1 of 15 counties
-16 ft here 1st of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Most wells here have no record of what the drill went through
73% of wells on record have no drill log. The well exists on paper and nothing says what formation it hit, at what depth, or what the water was like. A neighbour's log is the cheapest evidence there is about your own ground, and here there usually is not one.
ADWR wells registry 2 of 15 counties
73% 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
79% of the 33 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 4 of 15 counties
79% here 4th of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
The aquifer under this county is dropping, even where the county's own wells are quiet
The basin this county draws from is down -17 feet over twenty years, against -1 ft across the state. A basin is bigger than a county and the water does not respect the line: pumping on the far side of it reaches here.
ADWR groundwater level change 1 of 15 counties
-17 ft here 1st of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
The land here is sinking where the aquifer was drawn down
409 mapped subsidence features and no confirmed fissures yet. Subsidence is what precedes a fissure, and it is worth knowing about before it becomes one.
AZGS earth fissure and subsidence mapping 5 of 9 counties
409 here 5th of 9 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Much of this county is tribal land
38% of the county is tribal land, where water rights are federally reserved and settled separately from the state system.
Arizona general stream adjudications 6 of 13 counties
38% here 6th 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 Graham County