Barnes County, ND Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Barnes County
Griggs County, ND, 36 miles from Barnes County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.
No well inside Barnes County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Barnes County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Griggs County, ND's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
About Barnes County
Barnes County, North Dakota covers 1,492 square miles and is home to about 10,798 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Barnes County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.