WaterTableCheck

Jackson County, IL Water Table Trend

The nearest real water-table reading to Jackson County, IL

Rising (getting shallower)
3.8ft/decade

The closest qualifying well to Jackson County is 24 miles away in Perry County, MO, where the trend runs rising, getting shallower over time.

Jackson County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Jackson 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 Perry County, MO'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.

Jackson County, Illinois in brief

About 53,199 people live across Jackson County's 584 square miles, in Illinois. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Jackson County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.