Athens County, OH Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Athens County, OH?
Athens County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.3 ft per decade over 52 years of readings.
One well stands in for Athens 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 14.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1975-01-16 to 2026-07-22, 153 measurements from USGS well OH015-392004082071600 (At-2a Oh), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Athens County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Athens County ranks 441st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 63,218 people live in Athens County, Ohio. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Athens County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Athens 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.