Lawrence County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Lawrence County, MO?
Lawrence County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 3.4 ft per decade over 74 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Lawrence County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 88.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1952-05-01 to 2026-08-26, 56 measurements from USGS well MO005-365644094001301 (Pierce City), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Lawrence County compares nationally
Lawrence County sits at rank 1261st 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. Lawrence County, Missouri is home to about 39,151 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Lawrence County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Lawrence County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Lawrence County, that trend is real, not assumed: 3.4 ft per decade over 74 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Lawrence 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.