Groundwater Level Measurements for Two Aquifers Near Shellmound, Mississippi, 2020-2024

Hourly groundwater level data from January-October 2020 to April 2024 for 17 wells, and from February 2024 to April 2024 for 8 wells, totaling 25 wells in Leflore County, Mississippi. The dataset monitors the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer (22 wells) and the Sparta Sand of the middle Claiborne aquifer (3 wells). It was authored by Andrew O'Reilly and is available on figshare under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling aquifer depletion or recharge rates based on hourly groundwater level measurements
• Assessing water availability for row-crop cultivation and aquaculture based on the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer data
• Guiding drinking water resource management based on monitoring of the middle Claiborne aquifer
• Analyzing seasonal or long-term groundwater trends from the multi-year time-series data

Strengths

• Data collected at hourly intervals, providing high temporal resolution
• Covers 25 wells monitoring two distinct aquifers over a multi-year period
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data coverage is not uniform for all wells; 8 wells have only ~2 months of data

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Groundwater level measurements collected from monitoring wells.

Time Range

January-October 2020 to April 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 15:33:21; freshness should be verified

Geography

Shellmound, Leflore County, Mississippi, USA