Webster County, NE Water Table Trend
Webster County, NE: what the water table is actually doing
Webster County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 86 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Webster County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 21.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1939-09-21 to 2025-03-26, 13 measurements from USGS well USGS-400512098275101 (1n 10w 5aadc1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Webster County compares nationally
Webster County sits at rank 973rd 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. Webster County, Nebraska is home to about 3,326 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Webster County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Webster County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Webster County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.5 ft per decade over 86 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Webster 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.