Divide County, ND Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Divide County, ND?
Divide County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 2.2 ft per decade over 49 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Divide County's source well, in detail
Water in this well currently sits 12.1 ft above land surface (flowing/artesian), a flowing or artesian well rather than one pumped from below. Readings span 1972-01-11 to 2020-10-08, 285 measurements from USGS well USGS-485432103151701 (163-097-34abb), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Divide County compares nationally
Divide County sits at rank 1200th 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. Divide County, North Dakota is home to about 2,124 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Divide County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Divide County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Divide County, that trend is real, not assumed: 2.2 ft per decade over 49 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Divide 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.