Dawson County, NE Water Table Trend
Dawson County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Dawson County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 93 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Dawson County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 11.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1932-08-11 to 2025-04-10, 186 measurements from USGS well USGS-404550099401201 (9n 21w12cb 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 Dawson County compares nationally
Dawson County sits at rank 600th 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. Dawson County, Nebraska is home to about 24,554 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Dawson 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 Dawson 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.