Pemiscot County, MO Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Pemiscot County, MO?
Pemiscot County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.4 ft per decade over 69 years of readings.
One well stands in for Pemiscot 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 15.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1957-01-22 to 2026-06-23, 109 measurements from USGS well MO005-360425089485001 (Steele), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Pemiscot County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Pemiscot County ranks 916th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 14,407 people live in Pemiscot County, Missouri. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Pemiscot County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Pemiscot 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.