Van Wert County, OH Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Van Wert County, OH?
Van Wert County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 1.1 ft per decade over 56 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Van Wert County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 30.1 ft below land surface. Readings span 1970-06-17 to 2026-07-07, 71 measurements from USGS well OH015-405215084335400 (Vw-1 Oh), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Van Wert County compares nationally
Van Wert County sits at rank 1094th 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. Van Wert County, Ohio is home to about 28,887 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Van Wert County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Van Wert County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Van Wert County, that trend is real, not assumed: 1.1 ft per decade over 56 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Van Wert 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.