Queen Anne's County, MD Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Queen Anne's County, MD?
Queen Anne's County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 77 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Queen Anne's County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1949-09-01 to 2026-10-26, 886 measurements from USGS well USGS-385756076105301 (Qa Ec 1), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Queen Anne's County compares nationally
Queen Anne's County sits at rank 552nd 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. Queen Anne's County, Maryland is home to about 53,688 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Queen Anne's 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 Queen Anne's 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.