Churchill County, NV Water Table Trend
Churchill County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Churchill County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 74 years of readings.
One well stands in for Churchill 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 34.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1951-12-11 to 2026-03-16, 69 measurements from USGS well USGS-393840118050001 (128 N21 E35 31dada1 Usblm Corral), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Churchill County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Churchill County ranks 729th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 26,033 people live in Churchill County, Nevada. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Churchill County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Churchill 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.