Natchitoches Parish, LA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Natchitoches Parish, LA?
Natchitoches Parish's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 90 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Natchitoches Parish's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 11.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1936-01-01 to 2026-03-25, 147 measurements from USGS well USGS-312934093114801 (Na-9), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Natchitoches Parish compares nationally
Natchitoches Parish sits at rank 589th 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. Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana is home to about 35,982 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Natchitoches Parish 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 Natchitoches Parish 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.