Cedar County, NE Water Table Trend
Cedar County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Cedar County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 58 years of readings.
One well stands in for Cedar 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 13.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1967-10-24 to 2025-04-28, 85 measurements from USGS well USGS-423655097145001 (31n 2e31cc 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 Cedar County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Cedar County ranks 806th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 8,262 people live in Cedar County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Cedar County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Cedar 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.