Sherburne County, MN Water Table Trend
Sherburne County, MN: what the water table is actually doing
Over 42 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Sherburne 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.
Sherburne County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 21.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1976-10-31 to 2018-08-07, 278 measurements from USGS well USGS-452545093571002 (Alus-03 034n29w21abb 02 0000244444), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Sherburne County compares nationally
Sherburne County sits at rank 533rd 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. Sherburne County, Minnesota is home to about 103,059 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sherburne 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 Sherburne 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.