Henry County, IN Water Table Trend
Henry County, IN: what the water table is actually doing
Henry County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 31 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Henry County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 27 ft below land surface. Readings span 1994-09-20 to 2025-09-10, 20 measurements from USGS well USGS-395713085202901 (Nawqa Ag Well Tp8 At New Castle, In), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Henry County compares nationally
Henry County sits at rank 951st 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. Henry County, Indiana is home to about 49,081 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Henry 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 Henry 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.