Patrick County, VA Water Table Trend
Patrick County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Patrick County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.2 ft per decade over 61 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Patrick County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 22.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1966-05-06 to 2026-10-21, 291 measurements from USGS well USGS-364732080070301 (30c 1 Sow 010), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Patrick County compares nationally
Patrick County sits at rank 796th 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. Patrick County, Virginia is home to about 17,308 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Patrick 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 Patrick 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.