Burt County, NE Water Table Trend
Burt County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Burt County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 62 years of readings.
One well stands in for Burt 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 11.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1963-10-21 to 2025-04-07, 111 measurements from USGS well USGS-414944096292301 (22n 8e35dc 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Burt County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Burt County ranks 809th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 6,727 people live in Burt County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Burt County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Burt 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.