Howard County, IA Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Howard County
Chickasaw County, IA, 21 miles from Howard County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining faster than most declining counties.
No well inside Howard County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Howard County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Chickasaw County, IA'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.
About Howard County
Howard County, Iowa covers 473 square miles and is home to about 9,360 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Howard County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.