Chambers County, TX Water Table Trend
Chambers County, TX: what the water table is actually doing
Chambers County's long-term well puts the trend at 1.9 ft per decade, rising, getting shallower over time, based on 58 measurements since 1951.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Chambers County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 167.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1951-09-14 to 2026-02-23, 58 measurements from USGS well USGS-295001094544401 (Dh-64-09-307), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Chambers County compares nationally
Chambers County sits at rank 139th 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. Chambers County, Texas is home to about 56,179 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Chambers 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 Chambers 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.