Racine County, WI Water Table Trend
Racine County, WI: what the water table is actually doing
Racine County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.4 ft per decade over 64 years of readings.
One well stands in for Racine County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 24 ft below land surface. Readings span 1962-06-01 to 2026-09-22, 300 measurements from USGS well USGS-424119088081801 (Ra-03/20e/28-0062), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Racine County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Racine County ranks 386th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 198,651 people live in Racine County, Wisconsin. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Racine County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Racine County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.