Sanpete County, UT Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Sanpete County, UT?
Sanpete County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.6 ft per decade over 91 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Sanpete County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 6.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1934-07-29 to 2025-03-11, 95 measurements from USGS well USGS-393055111350801 ((D-15- 3)16adb- 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Sanpete County compares nationally
Sanpete County sits at rank 991st 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. Sanpete County, Utah is home to about 30,732 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sanpete County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Sanpete County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Sanpete County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.6 ft per decade over 91 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Sanpete 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.