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Water in Greenlee 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.
- 3,266 Wells on record across 1,885 square miles
- 153 ft Well depth middle value across 268 of 1,885 square miles
- 71 ft Depth to water middle value across 6 of 1,885 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Greenlee 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
1,885 surveyed sections, drawn one square mile 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
Most wells here have no record of what the drill went through
83% of wells on record have no drill log, against 67% across the state. 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 1 of 15 counties
83% here 1st of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Water rights here are still being decided in court
100% of the county falls inside a general stream adjudication that has run for decades and is not finished. Until it ends, who holds what is formally unsettled.
Arizona general stream adjudications 4 of 14 counties
100% here 4th of 14 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
FEMA has never determined the flood risk for most of this county
66% of the county is FEMA Zone D, which means undetermined hazard. 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 6 of 15 counties
66% here 6th of 15 One bar per Arizona county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Nearly every monitored well here is falling
73% of the 11 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 7 of 15 counties
73% here 7th of 15 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 Greenlee County