Lander County, NV Water Table Trend
Lander County, NV: what the water table is actually doing
Lander County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 77 years of readings.
One well stands in for Lander 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 10.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1949-06-21 to 2026-03-17, 83 measurements from USGS well USGS-403920116520001 (061 N32 E45 11daca1 Usgs), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Lander County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Lander County ranks 790th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 5,785 people live in Lander County, Nevada. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Lander County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Lander 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.