Rush County, IN Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Rush County, IN?
Rush County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 31 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Rush County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 10.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1994-07-19 to 2025-08-18, 18 measurements from USGS well USGS-394226085275601 (Nawqa Ag Well Tp22 Near Sexton, In), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Rush County compares nationally
Rush County sits at rank 347th 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. Rush County, Indiana is home to about 16,759 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Rush 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 Rush 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.