Rice County, KS Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Rice County
Harvey County, KS, 46 miles from Rice County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.
No well inside Rice County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Rice County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Harvey County, KS'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 Rice County
Rice County, Kansas covers 726 square miles and is home to about 9,284 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Rice County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.