Haywood County, TN Water Table Trend
Haywood County, TN: what the water table is actually doing
Haywood County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.6 ft per decade, rising, getting shallower over time, based on 13 measurements since 1957.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Haywood County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 43.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1957-02-08 to 2026-03-17, 13 measurements from USGS well USGS-353525089154101 (Ha:G-4), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Haywood County compares nationally
Haywood County sits at rank 331st 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. Haywood County, Tennessee is home to about 17,097 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Haywood 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 Haywood 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.