Roanoke city, VA Water Table Trend
Roanoke city, VA: what the water table is actually doing
Over 60 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Roanoke city's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.2 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Roanoke city's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 18.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1966-08-20 to 2026-07-30, 801 measurements from USGS well USGS-371653079552101 (31g 1 Sow 008), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Roanoke city compares nationally
Roanoke city sits at rank 783rd 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. Roanoke city, Virginia is home to about 97,912 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Roanoke city 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 Roanoke city 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.