WaterTableCheck

Morton County, KS Water Table Trend

What the closest monitoring well shows for Morton County

Declining, faster than most declining counties
39.5ft/decade

Stevens County, KS, 27 miles from Morton County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining faster than most declining counties.

No well inside Morton County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Morton County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Stevens County, KS's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.

About Morton County

Morton County, Kansas covers 730 square miles and is home to about 2,485 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Morton County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.