Grant County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Grant County, NE?
Over 48 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Grant County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.3 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Grant County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 5.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1976-12-22 to 2025-03-20, 55 measurements from USGS well USGS-420254101584101 (24n 40w20ab 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 Grant County compares nationally
Grant County sits at rank 467th 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. Grant County, Nebraska is home to about 573 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Grant 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 Grant 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.