Burke County, GA Water Table Trend
Burke County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Burke County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining faster than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 9.6 ft per decade over 46 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Burke County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 92.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1980-06-04 to 2026-09-08, 340 measurements from USGS well USGS-325232082131501 (28x001), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Burke County compares nationally
Burke County sits at rank 1384th 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. Burke County, Georgia is home to about 24,472 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Burke County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Burke County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Burke County, that trend is real, not assumed: 9.6 ft per decade over 46 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Burke 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.