Pasquotank County, NC Water Table Trend
Pasquotank County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Pasquotank County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0 ft per decade over 35 years of readings.
One well stands in for Pasquotank 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 5.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1991-10-03 to 2026-10-20, 219 measurements from USGS well USGS-361829076163201 (Pk-141 Nc-195 Nr Elizabeth City, Nc Surficial), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Pasquotank County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Pasquotank County ranks 683rd from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 41,418 people live in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Pasquotank County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Pasquotank 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.