Vanderburgh County, IN Water Table Trend
Vanderburgh County, IN: what the water table is actually doing
Over 40 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Vanderburgh County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Vanderburgh County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 23.6 ft below land surface. Readings span 1986-06-11 to 2026-09-21, 270 measurements from USGS well USGS-380626087344401 (Vanderburgh 7 (Va 7)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Vanderburgh County compares nationally
Vanderburgh County sits at rank 652nd 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. Vanderburgh County, Indiana is home to about 180,387 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Vanderburgh 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 Vanderburgh 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.