Harding County, NM Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Harding County, NM?
Harding County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 70 years of readings.
One well stands in for Harding 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 38.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1954-07-27 to 2025-01-03, 11 measurements from USGS well USGS-352550103364201 (14n.31e.23.2213 432), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Harding County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Harding County ranks 745th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 635 people live in Harding County, New Mexico. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Harding County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Harding 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.