Sioux County, ND Water Table Trend
Sioux County, ND: what the water table is actually doing
Sioux County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 48 years of readings.
One well stands in for Sioux County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 135.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1973-07-01 to 2021-07-13, 209 measurements from USGS well USGS-460244101272702 (130-086-28ccc2), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Sioux County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Sioux County ranks 524th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 3,713 people live in Sioux County, North Dakota. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sioux County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Sioux County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.