Richmond County, GA Water Table Trend
Richmond County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Richmond County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 82 years of readings.
One well stands in for Richmond 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 81.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1945-01-01 to 2026-09-24, 27 measurements from USGS well USGS-332245082134901 (28bb11), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Richmond County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Richmond County ranks 531st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 206,303 people live in Richmond County, Georgia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Richmond County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Richmond 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.