Powhatan County, VA Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Powhatan County
Cumberland County, VA, 19 miles from Powhatan County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.
No well inside Powhatan County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Powhatan County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Cumberland County, VA'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 Powhatan County
Powhatan County, Virginia covers 260 square miles and is home to about 32,392 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Powhatan County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.