Wichita County, KS Water Table Trend
Wichita County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Wichita County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 3.2 ft per decade over 42 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Wichita County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 139 ft below land surface. Readings span 1982-08-04 to 2024-04-16, 6 measurements from USGS well USGS-383008101315601 (18s 38w 08daaa01 Cos-1121), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Wichita County compares nationally
Wichita County sits at rank 1253rd 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. Wichita County, Kansas is home to about 2,072 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Wichita County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Wichita County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Wichita County, that trend is real, not assumed: 3.2 ft per decade over 42 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Wichita 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.