Greeley County, NE Water Table Trend
Greeley County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Greeley County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 2.8 ft per decade over 70 years of readings.
One well stands in for Greeley 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 37.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1954-11-17 to 2025-03-21, 102 measurements from USGS well USGS-412613098283601 (17n 10w21bab 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Greeley County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Greeley County ranks 98th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 2,197 people live in Greeley County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Greeley County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Greeley 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.