Keya Paha County, NE Water Table Trend
Keya Paha County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Keya Paha County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.2 ft per decade over 63 years of readings.
One well stands in for Keya Paha 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 5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1961-08-27 to 2024-04-22, 134 measurements from USGS well USGS-425024099455201 (33n 21w11cc 1 Ne-Np-Swr-B), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Keya Paha County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Keya Paha County ranks 228th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 819 people live in Keya Paha County, Nebraska. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Keya Paha County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Keya Paha 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.