Tift County, GA Water Table Trend
Tift County, GA: what the water table is actually doing
Over 41 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Tift County's aquifer is declining faster than most declining counties: 5.9 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Tift County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 142.9 ft below land surface. Readings span 1985-05-20 to 2026-10-27, 207 measurements from USGS well USGS-312712082593301 (18k049), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Tift County compares nationally
Tift County sits at rank 1335th 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. Tift County, Georgia is home to about 41,708 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Tift County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Tift County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Tift County, that trend is real, not assumed: 5.9 ft per decade over 41 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Tift 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.