Ripley County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Ripley County, MO?
Over 62 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Ripley County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.1 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Ripley County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 12.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1964-07-13 to 2026-06-23, 152 measurements from USGS well MO005-363442090364301 (Naylor), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Ripley County compares nationally
Ripley County sits at rank 590th 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. Ripley County, Missouri is home to about 10,715 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Ripley 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 Ripley 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.