Kiowa County, CO Water Table Trend
Kiowa County, CO: what the water table is actually doing
Kiowa County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.7 ft per decade over 57 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Kiowa County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 48.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1960-05-09 to 2017-03-02, 47 measurements from USGS well USGS-382050102032000 (Sc02004106cbb), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Kiowa County compares nationally
Kiowa County sits at rank 1006th 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. Kiowa County, Colorado is home to about 1,392 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Kiowa County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Kiowa County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Kiowa County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.7 ft per decade over 57 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Kiowa 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.