Brown County, NE Water Table Trend
Brown County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Brown County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 90 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Brown County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 14.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1934-11-08 to 2024-04-22, 159 measurements from USGS well USGS-423212099525101 (30n 22w27dc 1 Ne-Np-Swr-B), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Brown County compares nationally
Brown County sits at rank 477th 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. Brown County, Nebraska is home to about 2,877 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Brown 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 Brown 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.