Sumter County, AL Water Table Trend
Sumter County, AL: what the water table is actually doing
Sumter County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 8.6 ft per decade over 61 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Sumter County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 5 ft below land surface. Readings span 1963-01-01 to 2024-06-05, 99 measurements from USGS well USGS-323001088021601 (Well Y 1 323001088021601 Sumter County Al), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Sumter County compares nationally
Sumter County sits at rank 33rd 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. Sumter County, Alabama is home to about 11,607 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Sumter 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 Sumter 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.