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Water use for Nebraska counties, 2000
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) compiles National water-use estimates every five years. The most recent compilation was for year 2000. The data compiled includes water withdrawn from surface- and ground-water sources and used for various categories of water use. Total fresh (non-saline) water-use estimates for Nebraska counties are presented below. Data are reported in millions of gallons per day (Mgal/d).
County | Public Supply | Domestic | Industrial | Irrigation | Livestock | Mining | Thermoelectric | Total |
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Adams | 8.79 | 1.04 | 0.99 | 203.59 | 1.03 | 0.87 | 1.90 | 218.21 |
Antelope | 1.30 | 0.52 | 0.00 | 218.53 | 1.43 | 2.20 | 0.00 | 223.98 |
Arthur | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 15.76 | 0.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.19 |
Banner | 0.04 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 36.56 | 0.56 | 0.93 | 0.00 | 38.20 |
Blaine | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 11.15 | 0.43 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 11.73 |
Boone | 0.89 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 130.33 | 1.53 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 133.18 |
Box Butte | 2.62 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 230.10 | 1.26 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 234.30 |
Boyd | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 4.82 | 0.65 | 0.35 | 0.00 | 6.03 |
Brown | 0.59 | 0.21 | 0.01 | 65.89 | 1.23 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 68.04 |
Buffalo | 8.73 | 1.65 | 1.14 | 232.68 | 1.50 | 5.23 | 0.00 | 250.93 |
Burt | 1.61 | 0.28 | 0.01 | 53.38 | 0.66 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 55.97 |
Butler | 1.10 | 0.59 | 0.00 | 104.33 | 0.61 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 107.38 |
Cass | 26.48 | 0.12 | 0.99 | 3.05 | 0.32 | 8.90 | 0.00 | 39.86 |
Cedar | 1.20 | 0.48 | 0.15 | 65.10 | 1.89 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 69.57 |
Chase | 1.09 | 0.24 | 0.16 | 265.49 | 0.65 | 0.81 | 0.00 | 268.44 |
Cherry | 1.07 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 42.18 | 2.82 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 46.56 |
Cheyenne | 2.22 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 87.71 | 0.92 | 1.53 | 0.00 | 92.84 |
Clay | 1.54 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 222.21 | 1.60 | 2.39 | 0.00 | 228.08 |
Colfax | 2.71 | 0.50 | 2.42 | 58.97 | 1.65 | 1.89 | 0.00 | 68.14 |
Cuming | 2.27 | 0.40 | 0.91 | 38.72 | 4.05 | 7.85 | 0.00 | 54.20 |
Custer | 3.14 | 0.72 | 0.02 | 246.20 | 3.53 | 2.66 | 0.00 | 256.27 |
Dakota | 3.39 | 0.84 | 3.85 | 18.86 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 27.11 |
Dawes | 1.63 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 27.85 | 0.51 | 5.14 | 0.00 | 35.30 |
Dawson | 9.00 | 1.08 | 0.60 | 338.79 | 3.62 | 1.38 | 0.00 | 354.47 |
Deuel | 0.42 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 35.75 | 0.14 | 2.34 | 0.00 | 38.76 |
Dixon | 0.68 | 0.47 | 0.97 | 17.21 | 1.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20.65 |
Dodge | 6.14 | 0.92 | 1.88 | 87.35 | 0.96 | 1.94 | 0.71 | 99.90 |
Douglas | 67.70 | 8.36 | 1.24 | 15.95 | 0.23 | 4.22 | 437.70 | 535.40 |
Dundy | 0.41 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 129.18 | 0.93 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 130.80 |
Fillmore | 1.34 | 0.27 | 0.00 | 210.20 | 0.79 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 212.60 |
Franklin | 0.71 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 107.38 | 0.50 | 2.52 | 0.00 | 111.28 |
Frontier | 0.62 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 84.59 | 0.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 86.29 |
Furnas | 1.08 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 80.28 | 0.83 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 82.86 |
Gage | 5.86 | 0.86 | 0.06 | 52.81 | 0.91 | 2.44 | 0.00 | 62.94 |
Garden | 0.35 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 62.35 | 0.87 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 63.82 |
Garfield | 0.26 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 16.06 | 0.48 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 17.07 |
Gosper | 0.57 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 99.99 | 0.58 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 101.25 |
Grant | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 2.06 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.62 |
Greeley | 0.42 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 52.61 | 0.71 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.90 |
Hall | 12.46 | 1.62 | 1.20 | 195.22 | 1.18 | 5.22 | 1.80 | 218.70 |
Hamilton | 2.01 | 0.61 | 0.77 | 239.48 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 243.51 |
Harlan | 1.07 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 126.38 | 0.72 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 128.98 |
Hayes | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 59.86 | 0.67 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 60.78 |
Hitchcock | 0.56 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 59.23 | 0.40 | 1.20 | 0.00 | 61.54 |
Holt | 2.03 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 230.45 | 3.06 | 1.73 | 0.00 | 237.97 |
Hooker | 0.16 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 6.04 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.43 |
Howard | 0.89 | 0.58 | 0.01 | 118.70 | 1.02 | 1.13 | 0.00 | 122.33 |
Jefferson | 1.61 | 0.25 | 0.04 | 67.47 | 0.58 | 1.73 | 0.00 | 71.68 |
Johnson | 2.27 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 8.79 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.55 |
Kearney | 1.28 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 184.72 | 1.22 | 0.86 | 0.00 | 188.50 |
Keith | 1.74 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 131.60 | 0.89 | 0.80 | 0.00 | 135.50 |
Keya Paha | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 14.23 | 0.61 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 15.08 |
Kimball | 0.97 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 60.66 | 0.22 | 1.35 | 0.00 | 63.40 |
Knox | 1.96 | 0.43 | 0.14 | 38.83 | 2.02 | 3.36 | 0.00 | 46.74 |
Lancaster | 1.25 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 13.84 | 0.50 | 0.23 | 2.42 | 18.52 |
Lincoln | 8.05 | 1.20 | 0.29 | 314.58 | 2.34 | 1.70 | 680.80 | 1008.96 |
Logan | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 21.89 | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.36 |
Loup | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 11.17 | 0.36 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 11.88 |
McPherson | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 9.03 | 1.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10.30 |
Madison | 6.65 | 0.89 | 2.94 | 85.56 | 0.43 | 6.54 | 0.00 | 103.01 |
Merrick | 0.87 | 0.59 | 0.00 | 183.16 | 1.15 | 1.49 | 0.00 | 187.26 |
Morrill | 0.98 | 0.43 | 0.91 | 190.94 | 1.73 | 0.91 | 0.00 | 195.90 |
Nance | 0.36 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 62.84 | 0.56 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 64.40 |
Nemaha | 1.60 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 1.66 | 0.38 | 0.32 | 726.40 | 730.40 |
Nuckolls | 0.81 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 75.42 | 0.53 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 77.22 |
Otoe | 2.23 | 0.19 | 0.00 | 3.43 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 417.54 | 423.85 |
Pawnee | 0.29 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 1.81 | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 2.53 |
Perkins | 0.79 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 208.40 | 0.36 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 210.21 |
Phelps | 2.33 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 318.08 | 2.37 | 1.76 | 0.00 | 324.96 |
Pierce | 0.78 | 0.66 | 0.00 | 121.35 | 1.16 | 0.28 | 0.00 | 124.23 |
Platte | 8.24 | 1.27 | 5.70 | 109.13 | 1.78 | 6.22 | 0.00 | 132.34 |
Polk | 1.06 | 0.35 | 0.00 | 133.08 | 1.06 | 0.77 | 0.00 | 136.32 |
Red Willow | 3.65 | 0.35 | 0.08 | 70.27 | 0.86 | 2.24 | 0.00 | 77.45 |
Richardson | 1.49 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 1.12 | 0.46 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 3.28 |
Rock | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 44.52 | 0.95 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 45.92 |
Saline | 2.01 | 0.48 | 2.36 | 95.63 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100.91 |
Sarpy | 22.28 | 3.16 | 0.87 | 9.04 | 0.35 | 4.74 | 0.21 | 40.65 |
Saunders | 36.14 | 1.18 | 0.12 | 85.53 | 1.04 | 9.05 | 0.00 | 133.06 |
Scotts Bluff | 9.54 | 1.50 | 5.55 | 295.86 | 2.18 | 1.07 | 0.00 | 315.70 |
Seward | 2.03 | 0.80 | 0.06 | 89.43 | 0.71 | 0.06 | 0.00 | 93.09 |
Sheridan | 0.96 | 0.48 | 0.00 | 97.43 | 1.45 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 100.34 |
Sherman | 0.66 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 74.22 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 75.67 |
Sioux | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 70.49 | 1.11 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 71.91 |
Stanton | 0.80 | 0.33 | 0.00 | 21.13 | 1.14 | 1.74 | 0.00 | 25.14 |
Thayer | 1.40 | 0.19 | 0.01 | 161.14 | 0.69 | 5.46 | 0.00 | 168.89 |
Thomas | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 4.78 | 0.58 | 2.63 | 0.00 | 8.14 |
Thurston | 1.91 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 9.16 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.64 |
Valley | 0.69 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 76.12 | 0.36 | 0.97 | 0.00 | 78.38 |
Washington | 6.88 | 0.96 | 0.02 | 15.93 | 1.21 | 0.02 | 548.50 | 573.52 |
Wayne | 2.16 | 0.51 | 0.02 | 31.70 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 35.00 |
Webster | 0.67 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 58.70 | 0.79 | 1.86 | 0.00 | 62.24 |
Wheeler | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 52.01 | 1.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 53.47 |
York | 2.66 | 0.53 | 1.06 | 246.49 | 1.92 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 252.66 |
Total | 330 | 48.4 | 38.1 | 8,790 | 93.4 | 128 | 2,820 | 12,200 |