WaterTableCheck

Wilkes County, GA Water Table Trend

The nearest real water-table reading to Wilkes County, GA

Declining, a typical pace among declining counties
3.2ft/decade

McCormick County, SC, 26 miles from Wilkes County, is the closest county with a qualifying well, and its water table is declining at a typical pace for a declining county.

No well inside Wilkes County clears this site's 15-year qualifying bar, so this is the closest real reading, not a measurement of Wilkes County's own aquifer. Worth checking your own well's depth log against it rather than assuming it matches. See McCormick County, SC's full page. See the no-data guide for why a county this close to a qualifying well still doesn't get its own number.

About Wilkes County

Wilkes County, Georgia covers 470 square miles and is home to about 9,567 people. USGS's National Groundwater Monitoring Network covers 1,449 of 3,222 US counties (45%) today; Wilkes County isn't one of them yet, see the methodology guide for the exact qualifying bar.