Piute County, UT Water Table Trend
Piute County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Piute 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.
One well stands in for Piute County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
This well is artesian, water currently stands 0.7 ft above land surface (flowing/artesian), not drawn up from a depth. Readings span 1937-04-09 to 2026-03-10, 183 measurements from USGS well USGS-382615111534001 ((C-27- 1)27abc- 2), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Piute County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Piute County ranks 887th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 1,534 people live in Piute County, Utah. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Piute County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Piute County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.