Platte County, NE Water Table Trend
Platte County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Platte County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 87 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Platte County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 65.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1935-11-13 to 2023-04-10, 228 measurements from USGS well USGS-412955097192001 (18n 1e28cd1 Ne-Lnc-Swr-A), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Platte County compares nationally
Platte County sits at rank 869th 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. Platte County, Nebraska is home to about 35,499 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Platte 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 Platte 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.