Houghton County, MI Water Table Trend
The nearest real water-table reading to Houghton County, MI
The closest qualifying well to Houghton County is 56 miles away in Marquette County, MI, where the trend runs declining at a typical pace for a declining county.
Houghton County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Houghton County's own number. If you own a well here, comparing your own depth log against this regional figure is worth doing before assuming either way. See Marquette County, MI'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.
Houghton County, Michigan in brief
About 38,041 people live across Houghton County's 1,009 square miles, in Michigan. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Houghton County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.