Hooker County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Hooker County, NE?
Over 50 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Hooker County's aquifer is rising, getting shallower over time: 4.2 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Hooker County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 109.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1973-10-01 to 2024-03-05, 48 measurements from USGS well USGS-414506101014401 (21n 32w33b 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 Hooker County compares nationally
Hooker County sits at rank 68th 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. Hooker County, Nebraska is home to about 698 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Hooker 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 Hooker 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.