Ste. Genevieve County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Ste. Genevieve County, MO?
Over 84 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Ste. Genevieve County's aquifer is declining at a typical pace for a declining county: 2.4 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Ste. Genevieve County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 323.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1942-12-01 to 2026-06-16, 55 measurements from USGS well MO005-375306090125301 (Weingarten), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Ste. Genevieve County compares nationally
Ste. Genevieve County sits at rank 1219th 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. Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri is home to about 18,546 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Ste. Genevieve County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Ste. Genevieve County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Ste. Genevieve County, that trend is real, not assumed: 2.4 ft per decade over 84 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Ste. Genevieve 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.