Price County, WI Water Table Trend
Price County, WI: what the water table is actually doing
Price County's long-term well puts the trend at 0.1 ft per decade, holding roughly steady, based on 295 measurements since 1986.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Price County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1986-10-02 to 2026-08-27, 295 measurements from USGS well USGS-453311090065301 (Pr-35/03e/04-0065), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Price County compares nationally
Price County sits at rank 705th 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. Price County, Wisconsin is home to about 14,087 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Price 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 Price 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.