Craig County, VA Water Table Trend
Craig County, VA: what the water table is actually doing
Craig County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.6 ft per decade over 18 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Craig County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 40.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 2009-01-21 to 2026-10-13, 70 measurements from USGS well USGS-372223080234801 (27g 1 Sow 232), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Craig County compares nationally
Craig County sits at rank 993rd 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. Craig County, Virginia is home to about 4,829 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Craig County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Craig County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Craig County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.6 ft per decade over 18 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Craig 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.