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Southwest Kansas GMD 3
- Formed: 1976
- Office location: Garden City
- Counties/partial counties: Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Gray, Ford, Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Morton, Stevens, Seward, Meade
- Boundary changes: District reduced December 20, 1988 removing Hodgeman County areas
- Square miles: 8,342 (2017 GIS data)
- Acres: 5,722,260 (1976 management program); 5,338,626 (2017 GIS data)
- Irrigated acres: 1,437,682 (WRIS 2011-2015 average)
- Authorized acres: 1,632,840 (1976 management program); 2,238,478 authorized (WRIS 2017)
- Wells: 7,600 (1976 management program); 12,763 authorized groundwater points of diversion (WRIS 2017)
- Average precipitation: 15 to 20 inches/year (1976 management program); 15 to 22 inches/year (1981-2012 normals)
- Reported water use: 2,971,000 AFY (1976 management program); 2,007,490 AFY total (1,927,467 AFY irrigation, 96% of total) (WRIS 2011-2015 average)