Mitchell County, NC Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Mitchell County
McDowell County, NC, 24 miles from Mitchell County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is holding roughly steady.
No well inside Mitchell County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Mitchell County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See McDowell County, NC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
About Mitchell County
Mitchell County, North Carolina covers 221 square miles and is home to about 15,030 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Mitchell County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.