Caldwell County, NC Water Table Trend
Caldwell County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Caldwell County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 16 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Caldwell County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 2010-09-15 to 2026-08-28, 99 measurements from USGS well USGS-355031081243202 (Cd-101 Granite Falls Rs Transition Zone Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Caldwell County compares nationally
Caldwell County sits at rank 481st 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. Caldwell County, North Carolina is home to about 80,739 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Caldwell County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Caldwell 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.