Yuma County, AZ Water Table Trend
Yuma County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Yuma County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 9.1 ft per decade over 57 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Yuma County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 132.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1963-02-25 to 2020-07-06, 166 measurements from USGS well USGS-322737114415301 (C-11-24 23bcb1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Yuma County compares nationally
Yuma County sits at rank 1378th of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. Yuma County, Arizona is home to about 220,310 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Yuma County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Yuma County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Yuma County, that trend is real, not assumed: 9.1 ft per decade over 57 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Yuma County can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.