Bottineau County, ND Water Table Trend
Bottineau County, ND: what the water table is actually doing
Bottineau County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 1.8 ft per decade over 41 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Bottineau County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 34.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1980-05-21 to 2021-08-17, 240 measurements from USGS well USGS-483248101141301 (159-082-34ddc), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Bottineau County compares nationally
Bottineau County sits at rank 1164th 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. Bottineau County, North Dakota is home to about 6,391 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bottineau County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Bottineau County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Bottineau County, that trend is real, not assumed: 1.8 ft per decade over 41 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Bottineau 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.