Palo Alto County, IA Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Palo Alto County
Hancock County, IA, 47 miles from Palo Alto County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining, slower than most declining counties.
No well inside Palo Alto County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Palo Alto County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Hancock County, IA'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 Palo Alto County
Palo Alto County, Iowa covers 564 square miles and is home to about 8,809 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Palo Alto County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.