Lincoln County, NM Water Table Trend
Lincoln County, NM: what the water table is actually doing
Lincoln County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 71 years of readings.
One well stands in for Lincoln 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 19.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1955-04-28 to 2026-08-14, 134 measurements from USGS well USGS-332937105314501 (09s.14e.25.34221 Ft Stanton Crn Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Lincoln County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Lincoln County ranks 444th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 20,025 people live in Lincoln County, New Mexico. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Lincoln County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Lincoln 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.