Jackson Parish, LA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Jackson Parish, LA?
Jackson Parish's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.6 ft per decade over 66 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Jackson Parish's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 158.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1960-09-21 to 2026-09-16, 1673 measurements from USGS well USGS-321709092452401 (Ja-49), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Jackson Parish compares nationally
Jackson Parish sits at rank 160th 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. Jackson Parish, Louisiana is home to about 14,797 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Jackson Parish 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 Jackson Parish 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.