Garfield County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Garfield County, NE?
Over 88 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Garfield County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.5 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Garfield County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 0.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1935-11-20 to 2024-04-24, 97 measurements from USGS well USGS-420237099041901 (24n 15w20aa 1 Ne-Np-Swr-B), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Garfield County compares nationally
Garfield County sits at rank 357th 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. Garfield County, Nebraska is home to about 1,707 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Garfield 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 Garfield 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.