Mineral County, WV Water Table Trend
Mineral County, WV: what the water table is actually doing
Mineral County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.4 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 133 measurements since 2005.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Mineral County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 26.5 ft below land surface. Readings span 2005-09-08 to 2026-09-23, 133 measurements from USGS well USGS-392200078532001 (Min-0173), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Mineral County compares nationally
Mineral County sits at rank 937th 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. Mineral County, West Virginia is home to about 26,778 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Mineral 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 Mineral 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.