Boone County, NE Water Table Trend
Boone County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Boone County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 71 years of readings.
One well stands in for Boone County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 40.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1954-05-08 to 2025-03-18, 104 measurements from USGS well USGS-413220098080901 (18n 7w16bbba1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Boone County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Boone County ranks 583rd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 5,354 people live in Boone County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Boone County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Boone County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.