Haywood County, NC Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Haywood County, NC?
Haywood County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 53 years of readings.
One well stands in for Haywood 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 6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1971-11-12 to 2024-09-24, 247 measurements from USGS well USGS-352315082484401 (Hw-047 Nc-40 Champion Well Nr Cruso Regolith), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Haywood County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Haywood County ranks 641st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 63,048 people live in Haywood County, North Carolina. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Haywood County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Haywood 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.