Steele County, ND Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Steele County, ND?
Steele County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 51 years of readings.
One well stands in for Steele 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 76.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1970-08-05 to 2021-07-12, 317 measurements from USGS well USGS-472024097315201 (145-054-27cdc), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Steele County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Steele County ranks 760th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 1,767 people live in Steele County, North Dakota. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Steele County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Steele 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.