Hand County, SD Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Hand County
The closest qualifying well to Hand County is 37 miles away in Beadle County, SD, where the trend runs rising, getting shallower over time.
Hand County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Hand County's own number. If you own a well here, comparing your own depth log against this regional figure is worth doing before assuming either way. See Beadle County, SD's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
Hand County, South Dakota in brief
About 3,097 people live across Hand County's 1,437 square miles, in South Dakota. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Hand County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.