Putnam County, MO Water Table Trend
Putnam County, MO: the closest actual trend
Schuyler County, MO, 26 miles from Putnam County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is rising, getting shallower over time.
No well inside Putnam County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Putnam County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See Schuyler County, MO'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 Putnam County
Putnam County, Missouri covers 517 square miles and is home to about 4,539 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Putnam County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.