Pocahontas County, WV Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Pocahontas County, WV?
Pocahontas County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.1 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 373 measurements since 1970.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Pocahontas County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 69.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1970-12-08 to 2026-09-21, 373 measurements from USGS well USGS-380653080155301 (Poc-0256), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Pocahontas County compares nationally
Pocahontas County sits at rank 758th 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. Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to about 7,653 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas 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.