Carter County, TN Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Carter County
Watauga County, NC, 23 miles from Carter County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining, slower than most declining counties.
No well inside Carter County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Carter County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Watauga County, NC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
About Carter County
Carter County, Tennessee covers 341 square miles and is home to about 57,434 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Carter County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.