Poinsett County, AR Water Table Trend
Poinsett County, AR: what the water table is actually doing
Poinsett County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining at a typical pace for a declining county, a fitted trend of 2.1 ft per decade over 122 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Poinsett County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 99.3 ft below land surface. Readings span 1900-01-10 to 2021-10-25, 58 measurements from USGS well USSCS-354059090405701 (12n04e08cda), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Poinsett County compares nationally
Poinsett County sits at rank 1194th 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. Poinsett County, Arkansas is home to about 22,300 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Poinsett County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Poinsett County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Poinsett County, that trend is real, not assumed: 2.1 ft per decade over 122 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Poinsett 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.