Early County, GA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Early County, GA?
Early County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 0.8 ft per decade over 48 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Early County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 55.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1979-04-15 to 2026-10-19, 206 measurements from USGS well USGS-310427084591101 (06g006), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Early County compares nationally
Early County sits at rank 291st 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. Early County, Georgia is home to about 10,444 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Early 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 Early 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.