Pope County, IL Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Pope County
Saline County, IL, 23 miles from Pope County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is holding roughly steady.
No well inside Pope County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Pope County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Saline County, IL's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
About Pope County
Pope County, Illinois covers 369 square miles and is home to about 3,703 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Pope County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.