Atkinson County, GA Water Table Trend
Atkinson County, GA: what the water table is actually doing
Atkinson County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 2 ft per decade over 58 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Atkinson County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 148 ft below land surface. Readings span 1969-01-22 to 2026-09-16, 14 measurements from USGS well USGS-311904082452701 (23j006), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Atkinson County compares nationally
Atkinson County sits at rank 1183rd 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. Atkinson County, Georgia is home to about 8,435 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Atkinson County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Atkinson County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Atkinson County, that trend is real, not assumed: 2 ft per decade over 58 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Atkinson 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.