Van Buren County, IA Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Van Buren County
The closest qualifying well to Van Buren County is 17 miles away in Jefferson County, IA, where the trend runs declining at a typical pace for a declining county.
Van Buren County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Van Buren County's own number. If you own a well here, comparing your own depth log against this regional figure is worth doing before assuming either way. See Jefferson County, IA's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
Van Buren County, Iowa in brief
About 7,217 people live across Van Buren County's 485 square miles, in Iowa. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Van Buren County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.