Beltrami County, MN Water Table Trend
Beltrami County, MN: what the water table is actually doing
Beltrami County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 43 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Beltrami County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 31.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1983-05-25 to 2026-06-23, 323 measurements from USGS well USGS-473429095051301 (925a 147n35w02dcbb 01 0000273863), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Beltrami County compares nationally
Beltrami County sits at rank 554th 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. Beltrami County, Minnesota is home to about 46,762 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Beltrami 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 Beltrami 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.