WaterTableCheck

Hertford County, NC Water Table Trend

What the closest monitoring well shows for Hertford County

Rising (getting shallower)
0.5ft/decade

Gates County, NC, 16 miles from Hertford County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.

No well inside Hertford County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Hertford County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Gates County, NC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.

About Hertford County

Hertford County, North Carolina covers 353 square miles and is home to about 19,169 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Hertford County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.