Taylor County, WI Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Taylor County, WI?
Taylor County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.1 ft per decade over 76 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Taylor County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1949-01-01 to 2025-01-07, 220 measurements from USGS well USGS-450947090483902 (Ta-31/04w/13-0001), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Taylor County compares nationally
Taylor County sits at rank 608th 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. Taylor County, Wisconsin is home to about 20,167 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Taylor 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 Taylor 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.