Winn Parish, LA Water Table Trend
Winn Parish's groundwater trend, from USGS's own readings
Over 58 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Winn Parish's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.2 ft per decade.
One well stands in for Winn Parish's whole aquifer here, the honest simplification every page on this site carries.
What the well actually measured
The most recent reading put water 216.4 ft below land surface. Readings span 1968-09-04 to 2026-09-14, 56 measurements from USGS well USGS-315353092470001 (W-114), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
Where Winn Parish ranks
Of the 1,449 US counties with a usable trend, Winn Parish ranks 789th from fastest-rising to fastest-declining, 1 is the fastest-rising water table measured, 1449 the fastest-declining. About 13,405 people live in Winn Parish, Louisiana. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Winn Parish stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
A dropping table says nothing about water quality
Whether Winn Parish'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.