Douglas County, IL Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Douglas County
The closest qualifying well to Douglas County is 26 miles away in Piatt County, IL, where the trend runs declining at a typical pace for a declining county.
Douglas County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Douglas County's own number. If you own a well here, comparing your own depth log against this regional figure is worth doing before assuming either way. See Piatt County, IL'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.
Douglas County, Illinois in brief
About 19,824 people live across Douglas County's 417 square miles, in Illinois. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Douglas County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.