Woodward County, OK Water Table Trend
Woodward County, OK: what the water table is actually doing
Over 38 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Woodward County's aquifer is rising, getting shallower over time: 0.8 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Woodward County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 31.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1979-08-28 to 2017-09-13, 43 measurements from USGS well USGS-362942099320301 (23n-22w-03 Dda 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Woodward County compares nationally
Woodward County sits at rank 276th 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. Woodward County, Oklahoma is home to about 19,991 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Woodward County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Woodward 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.