Uintah County, UT Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Uintah County, UT?
Uintah County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.8 ft per decade over 90 years of readings.
One well stands in for Uintah 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 6.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1935-11-09 to 2026-03-09, 138 measurements from USGS well USGS-402406109513001 (U(D- 1- 1)14bbc- 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Uintah County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Uintah County ranks 144th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 38,307 people live in Uintah County, Utah. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Uintah County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Uintah 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.