Dawes County, NE Water Table Trend
Dawes County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Dawes County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 91 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Dawes County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 19.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1934-08-27 to 2025-03-17, 536 measurements from USGS well USGS-424100103243501 (31n 52w 3dc 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 Dawes County compares nationally
Dawes County sits at rank 797th 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. Dawes County, Nebraska is home to about 8,003 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Dawes 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 Dawes 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.