Towner County, ND Water Table Trend
Towner County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Towner County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 0.7 ft per decade over 41 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Towner County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10 ft below land surface. Readings span 1980-06-26 to 2021-07-27, 301 measurements from USGS well USGS-482908099134601 (158-066-30bbb), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Towner County compares nationally
Towner County sits at rank 317th 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. Towner County, North Dakota is home to about 2,051 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Towner County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Towner 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.