White Pine County, NV Water Table Trend
White Pine County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
White Pine County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 108 years of readings.
One well stands in for White Pine 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 13.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1918-06-24 to 2025-12-10, 562 measurements from USGS well USGS-393310114475001 (179 N20 E64 32cdaa2 Usgs), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where White Pine County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, White Pine County ranks 356th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 8,534 people live in White Pine County, Nevada. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how White Pine County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether White Pine 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.