Cedar County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Cedar County, MO?
Cedar County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 4.6 ft per decade over 18 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Cedar County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 134.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 2008-05-20 to 2026-04-22, 49 measurements from USGS well MO005-373620093470301 (North Hawker Point), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Cedar County compares nationally
Cedar County sits at rank 1293rd 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. Cedar County, Missouri is home to about 15,023 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Cedar County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Cedar County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Cedar County, that trend is real, not assumed: 4.6 ft per decade over 18 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Cedar 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.