Custer County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Custer County, NE?
Custer County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 77 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Custer County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 18.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1948-05-31 to 2025-03-17, 100 measurements from USGS well USGS-413237099165301 (18n 17w 9ca 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Custer County compares nationally
Custer County sits at rank 495th 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. Custer County, Nebraska is home to about 10,487 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Custer County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Custer 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.