Oceana County, MI Water Table Trend
Oceana County, MI: what the water table is actually doing
Oceana County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 49 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Oceana County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 41.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1977-08-22 to 2026-09-17, 64 measurements from USGS well USGS-433133086082601 (13n 15w 18aaaa01 Oceana Co (Hesperia)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Oceana County compares nationally
Oceana County sits at rank 956th 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. Oceana County, Michigan is home to about 27,014 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Oceana 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 Oceana 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.