Wabash County, IN Water Table Trend
Wabash County's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Wabash County's representative monitoring well shows depth to water declining, slower than most declining counties, a fitted trend of 0.5 ft per decade over 37 years of readings.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Wabash County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 45.7 ft below land surface. Readings span 1988-10-14 to 2025-06-12, 137 measurements from USGS well USGS-403948085414601 (Wabash 4 (Wb 4)), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Wabash County compares nationally
Wabash County sits at rank 963rd 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. Wabash County, Indiana is home to about 30,777 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Wabash County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
If you own a well in Wabash County
A dropping water table means a residential pump has to reach deeper and work harder, which shortens its life. In Wabash County, that trend is real, not assumed: 0.5 ft per decade over 37 years.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Wabash 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.