Tate County, MS Water Table Trend
Tate County, MS: what the water table is actually doing
Tate County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 1.5 ft per decade over 31 years of readings.
One well stands in for Tate County's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 7.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1995-04-04 to 2026-03-31, 61 measurements from USGS well USGS-344311090114601 (137a0503 Tate), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Tate County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Tate County ranks 171st from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 28,551 people live in Tate County, Mississippi. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Tate County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Tate County's water table is rising or falling is independent of what's actually in the water. Depletion can concentrate naturally-occurring minerals, so it's worth checking directly with a water test rather than assuming a depth trend says anything about quality.