Oneida County, NY Water Table Trend
Oneida County, NY: what the water table is actually doing
Oneida County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 100 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Oneida County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 21.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1926-07-09 to 2026-07-09, 3396 measurements from USGS well USGS-433112075091501 (Local Number, Oe-151, At Woodgate Ny), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Oneida County compares nationally
Oneida County sits at rank 711th 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. Oneida County, New York is home to about 228,347 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Oneida 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 Oneida 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.