Boyd County, NE Water Table Trend
Boyd County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Boyd County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 63 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Boyd County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 17.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1961-09-29 to 2024-04-22, 89 measurements from USGS well USGS-425222098412901 (34n 12w35dc 1 Ne-Np-Swr-C), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Boyd County compares nationally
Boyd County sits at rank 688th 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. Boyd County, Nebraska is home to about 1,700 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Boyd 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 Boyd 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.