Stoddard County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Stoddard County, MO?
Stoddard County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 1.6 ft per decade over 50 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Stoddard County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 13.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1975-10-08 to 2025-04-17, 17 measurements from USGS well USGS-364624089471201 (T25n R12e 32bab1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Stoddard County compares nationally
Stoddard County sits at rank 1150th 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. Stoddard County, Missouri is home to about 28,438 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Stoddard County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Stoddard County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Stoddard County, that trend is real, not assumed: 1.6 ft per decade over 50 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Stoddard 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.