Burke County, ND Water Table Trend
Burke County, ND: what the water table is actually doing
Burke County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 0.9 ft per decade over 54 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Burke County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 12.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1967-06-01 to 2021-06-16, 175 measurements from USGS well USGS-485618102455401 (163-093-17ddd), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Burke County compares nationally
Burke County sits at rank 268th 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. Burke County, North Dakota is home to about 2,154 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Burke 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 Burke 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.