Beaver County, OK Water Table Trend
Beaver County, OK: what the water table is actually doing
Beaver County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 2.5 ft per decade over 52 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Beaver County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 197.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1964-08-20 to 2017-01-09, 28 measurements from USGS well USGS-363151100512101 (01n-20e-24 Dcc 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Beaver County compares nationally
Beaver County sits at rank 106th 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. Beaver County, Oklahoma is home to about 5,025 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Beaver County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Beaver 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.