Kershaw County, SC Water Table Trend
Kershaw County, SC: what the water table is actually doing
Kershaw County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.3 ft per decade over 18 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Kershaw County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 49.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 2009-03-24 to 2026-10-19, 142 measurements from USGS well USGS-342440080443901 (Ker- 435 Kershaw County Nr Liberty Hill Bedrock), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Kershaw County compares nationally
Kershaw County sits at rank 191st 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. Kershaw County, South Carolina is home to about 71,698 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Kershaw 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 Kershaw 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.