Union County, AR Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Union County, AR?
Union County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water rising, getting shallower over time, a fitted trend of 6.1 ft per decade over 85 years of readings.
One well stands in for Union 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 223.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1942-01-01 to 2026-07-08, 543 measurements from USGS well USGS-331438092411901 (17s15w18dbb1 Monsanto), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Union County ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Union County ranks 45th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 37,008 people live in Union County, Arkansas. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Union County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Union 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.