Rutherford County, NC Water Table Trend
What the closest monitoring well shows for Rutherford County
The closest qualifying well to Rutherford County is 21 miles away in McDowell County, NC, where the trend runs holding roughly steady.
Rutherford County itself has no monitoring well with enough history to call its own trend, so treat this as a regional estimate, not Rutherford County's own number. If you own a well here, comparing your own depth log against this regional figure is worth doing before assuming either way. See McDowell County, NC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.
Rutherford County, North Carolina in brief
About 65,587 people live across Rutherford County's 565 square miles, in North Carolina. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Rutherford County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.