Huntingdon County, PA Water Table Trend
Huntingdon County, PA: what the water table is actually doing
Huntingdon County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.3 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 246 measurements since 1969.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Huntingdon County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 52.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1969-09-18 to 2026-08-13, 246 measurements from USGS well USGS-401843078075401 (Hu 301 Huntingdon County Observation Well), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Huntingdon County compares nationally
Huntingdon County sits at rank 874th 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. Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania is home to about 43,359 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon 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.