Stone County, MO Water Table Trend
Stone County, MO: what the water table is actually doing
Stone County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 31 ft per decade over 54 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Stone County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 375.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1973-01-01 to 2026-08-06, 60 measurements from USGS well MO005-364006093200301 (Silver Dollar City), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Stone County compares nationally
Stone County sits at rank 1444th 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. Stone County, Missouri is home to about 32,630 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Stone County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Stone County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Stone County, that trend is real, not assumed: 31 ft per decade over 54 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Stone 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.