Gibson County, TN Water Table Trend
Gibson County, TN: what the water table is actually doing
Gibson County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.2 ft per decade over 33 years of readings.
One well stands in for Gibson County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
This well is artesian, water currently stands 0.3 ft above land surface (flowing/artesian), not drawn up from a depth. Readings span 1988-06-18 to 2021-06-10, 10 measurements from USGS well USGS-355532088595701 (Gb:G-014), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Gibson County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Gibson County ranks 217th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 51,422 people live in Gibson County, Tennessee. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Gibson County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Gibson 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.