Loup County, NE Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Loup County, NE?
Loup County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 89 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Loup County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 2.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1935-10-15 to 2024-04-24, 116 measurements from USGS well USGS-414655099224901 (21n 18w22aa 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.
How Loup County compares nationally
Loup County sits at rank 466th 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. Loup County, Nebraska is home to about 582 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Loup County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Loup 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.