Bolivar County, MS Water Table Trend
Bolivar County, MS: what the water table is actually doing
Bolivar County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 2.3 ft per decade over 72 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Bolivar County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 31.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1953-11-01 to 2026-04-06, 242 measurements from USGS well USGS-334957090564301 (011f0020 Bolivar), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Bolivar County compares nationally
Bolivar County sits at rank 1213th 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. Bolivar County, Mississippi is home to about 28,395 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Bolivar County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Bolivar County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Bolivar County, that trend is real, not assumed: 2.3 ft per decade over 72 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Bolivar 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.