Skagit County, WA Water Table Trend
Skagit County, WA: what the water table is actually doing
Skagit County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 52 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Skagit County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 152.8 ft below land surface. Readings span 1971-02-02 to 2022-09-14, 15 measurements from USGS well USGS-483405122384601 (36n/01e-35f01), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Skagit County compares nationally
Skagit County sits at rank 715th 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. Skagit County, Washington is home to about 132,736 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Skagit 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 Skagit 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.