Lawrence County, PA Water Table Trend
Lawrence County, PA: what the water table is actually doing
Lawrence County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 59 years of readings.
One well stands in for Lawrence 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 16.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1967-11-09 to 2026-05-21, 187 measurements from USGS well USGS-410538080280801 (La 1201 Lawrence 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.
Where Lawrence County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Lawrence County ranks 774th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 84,233 people live in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Lawrence County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Lawrence 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.