Gordon County, GA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Gordon County, GA?
Gordon County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1 ft per decade over 30 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Gordon County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 25 ft below land surface. Readings span 1997-03-13 to 2026-10-08, 154 measurements from USGS well USGS-342922084511601 (07kk64), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Gordon County compares nationally
Gordon County sits at rank 251st 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. Gordon County, Georgia is home to about 60,765 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Gordon 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 Gordon 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.