Sawyer County, WI Water Table Trend
Sawyer County, WI: what the water table is actually doing
Over 90 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Sawyer County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Sawyer County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 17.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1937-04-09 to 2026-09-21, 5000 measurements from USGS well USGS-460005091291801 (Sw-41/09w/28-0007), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Sawyer County compares nationally
Sawyer County sits at rank 657th 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. Sawyer County, Wisconsin is home to about 18,835 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sawyer 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 Sawyer 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.