Burleigh County, ND Water Table Trend
Burleigh County, ND: what the water table is actually doing
Burleigh County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.4 ft per decade over 63 years of readings.
One well stands in for Burleigh County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1961-09-26 to 2024-07-24, 503 measurements from USGS well USGS-464540100222101 (138-077-22aad (Mckenzie Well)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Burleigh County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Burleigh County ranks 178th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 103,107 people live in Burleigh County, North Dakota. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Burleigh County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Burleigh County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.