Moore County, NC Water Table Trend
Moore County, NC: what the water table is actually doing
Moore County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 3.5 ft per decade over 16 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Moore County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 51.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 2011-03-30 to 2026-10-13, 82 measurements from USGS well USGS-351132079275301 (Mo-248 Pinehurst 5a At Pinehurst,Nc Black Creek), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Moore County compares nationally
Moore County sits at rank 81st 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. Moore County, North Carolina is home to about 108,417 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Moore 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 Moore 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.