LaGrange County, IN Water Table Trend
LaGrange County, IN: what the water table is actually doing
LaGrange County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 46 years of readings.
One well stands in for LaGrange County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 16.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1980-05-06 to 2026-10-14, 268 measurements from USGS well USGS-414318085200601 (Lagrange 2 (Lg 2)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where LaGrange County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, LaGrange County ranks 765th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 41,122 people live in LaGrange County, Indiana. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how LaGrange County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether LaGrange County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.