Harvey County, KS Water Table Trend
Harvey County, KS: what the water table is actually doing
Over 78 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Harvey County's aquifer is rising, getting shallower over time: 0.8 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Harvey County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 26.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1939-04-13 to 2017-03-01, 905 measurements from USGS well USGS-380139097341401 (23s 02w 29bbb 01), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Harvey County compares nationally
Harvey County sits at rank 300th 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. Harvey County, Kansas is home to about 33,642 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Harvey 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 Harvey 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.