Leflore County, MS Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Leflore County, MS?
Leflore County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.8 ft per decade over 65 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Leflore County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 22.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1960-11-01 to 2026-04-02, 20 measurements from USGS well USGS-334457090181801 (083b0009 Leflore), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Leflore County compares nationally
Leflore County sits at rank 1031st 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. Leflore County, Mississippi is home to about 26,157 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Leflore County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Leflore County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Leflore County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.8 ft per decade over 65 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Leflore 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.