Northumberland County, VA Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Northumberland County, VA?
Northumberland County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 24 years of readings.
One well stands in for Northumberland County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 36.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 2002-03-08 to 2026-06-23, 80 measurements from USGS well USGS-380047076333501 (58n 6), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Northumberland County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Northumberland County ranks 751st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 12,397 people live in Northumberland County, Virginia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Northumberland County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Northumberland County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.