Box Butte County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Box Butte County, NE?
Box Butte County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 4.2 ft per decade over 79 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Box Butte County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 119 ft below land surface. Readings span 1946-03-07 to 2025-03-19, 92 measurements from USGS well USGS-420650102522201 (25n 48w25acc 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 Box Butte County compares nationally
Box Butte County sits at rank 1283rd 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. Box Butte County, Nebraska is home to about 10,703 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Box Butte County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Box Butte County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Box Butte County, that trend is real, not assumed: 4.2 ft per decade over 79 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Box Butte 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.