Cuming County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Cuming County, NE?
Cuming County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 0.6 ft per decade over 75 years of readings.
One well stands in for Cuming 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 8.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1950-04-05 to 2025-04-13, 94 measurements from USGS well USGS-420137097000801 (24n 4e30ad 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 Cuming County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Cuming County ranks 332nd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 8,952 people live in Cuming County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Cuming County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Cuming 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.