Grand Forks County, ND Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Grand Forks County, ND?
Grand Forks County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.4 ft per decade over 61 years of readings.
One well stands in for Grand Forks County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 26.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1965-09-01 to 2026-10-14, 603 measurements from USGS well USGS-475646097372201 (152-054-31bbb (Larimore Well)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Grand Forks County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Grand Forks County ranks 374th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 73,771 people live in Grand Forks County, North Dakota. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Grand Forks County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Grand Forks County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.