Data used to assess variation in growth for painted turtles in a pond near Keystone, NE during 2005-2016. Analyses to be published in a manuscript entitled Drought affects sex ratio and growth of painted turtles in a long-term study in Nebraska. The data set contains information on growth, as measured by carapace length (mm), of painted turtles between repeated captures (each row is a distinct capture/recapture pairing that has growth information between two capture years) including sex, ID, length in first year, length in second year, number of years between capture, year of first capture, year of second capture.