Terrell County, GA Water Table Trend
Terrell County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Terrell County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water holding roughly steady, a fitted trend of 0.4 ft per decade over 30 years of readings.
One well stands in for Terrell 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 33.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1993-08-03 to 2023-09-21, 20 measurements from USGS well USGS-314858084194901 (11n010), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Terrell County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Terrell County ranks 917th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 8,698 people live in Terrell County, Georgia. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Terrell County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Terrell 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.