Dawson County, GA Water Table Trend
Dawson County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Dawson County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 42 years of readings.
One well stands in for Dawson County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 31.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1984-11-19 to 2026-10-07, 219 measurements from USGS well USGS-342125084083301 (12jj04), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Dawson County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Dawson County ranks 541st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 33,748 people live in Dawson County, Georgia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Dawson County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Dawson County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.