Texas County, OK Water Table Trend
Texas County, OK: what the water table is actually doing
Texas County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 8.1 ft per decade over 69 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Texas County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 245.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1956-07-26 to 2025-02-24, 1846 measurements from USGS well USGS-363033101440701 (01n-12e-35 Bdd 1 Texhoma Gw Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Texas County compares nationally
Texas County sits at rank 1366th 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. Texas County, Oklahoma is home to about 20,577 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Texas County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Texas County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Texas County, that trend is real, not assumed: 8.1 ft per decade over 69 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Texas 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.