ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO · 47 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
How far down rock starts varies widely around Austinburg. In the middle half of 565 logs within five miles, the top of rock sits anywhere from 25 to 106 feet. Casing usually runs down to rock, so two new wells a short way apart can need very different lengths of it.
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WHAT WE DO IN AUSTINBURG
Whether you’re on a private well or city water, the same crew handles the water source, the pressure, and what comes out of the tap.
Manganese is worth testing for first. In USGS samples of 9 Ashtabula County wells, 78% were over the 0.05 mg/L line, where it starts leaving brown to black stains. If your test agrees, the FerronX Iron System takes out manganese along with iron.
Wells around Austinburg tend to go deep. The town ranks third of 19 county towns by median depth, 75 feet across 677 logs against 60 for the county's domestic wells, and a quarter of logs reach 117 feet or more.
Yields are uneven: a median of 5 gallons a minute, with a quarter of 596 logs at 2 or less and a quarter at 12 or more. Water rests a median 20 feet down, and the pump hangs in the well below it.
WELLS AROUND AUSTINBURG
The 677 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Austinburg, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 55–117 ft
middle half 2–12 gpm
middle half 25–106 ft
646 wells; middle half 10–40 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Above the rock lies soil and loose material, and its thickness here changes a great deal. A quarter of the 565 logs that record bedrock reach it within 25 feet, and another quarter don't meet it until 106 feet or more. The median is 47. The rock mapped at the town center is Ohio Shale, a Devonian black shale.
The logs nearest a site give the best early read on where rock will be, but the driller only knows for certain when the bit reaches it. On a lot where rock turns out deep, casing makes up a bigger share of the well, and the cost page explains how that enters a quote. Residential well drilling covers how the hole is made.
Water settles a median 20 feet below ground in the 646 logs that record a static level, and the middle half run from 10 to 40 feet. The pump hangs below that level, with room for the drop that pumping causes, so the right setting shifts from one well to the next.
Pump size follows the flow. A pump that draws harder than the well refills pulls the water down to its intake and starts drawing air, so it is matched to the yield measured when the well is test-pumped. On the slower wells, a larger pressure tank holds more water between pump starts, and a submersible pump set low keeps working as the level falls.
WATER IN ASHTABULA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Ashtabula County, taken 1982–2016, 89% of wells were hard or very hard, 56% carried iron above the staining line, 78% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Ashtabula County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY AUSTINBURG CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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NEARBY
We send the same crews to each of these towns. If you’re between towns, pick the closest one; the service doesn’t change.
A LITTLE CLARITY
Our Cortland office (7115 Hoagland Blackstub Rd. Unit C, Cortland, OH 44410) is about 47 minutes and 38 miles by road from Austinburg. Service calls for Austinburg are scheduled from there.
Austinburg and the municipalities around it: Austinburg Township, Saybrook Township, Jefferson, Jefferson Township, Geneva, Harpersfield Township, Plymouth Township, Geneva Township, Geneva-on-the-Lake, Rock Creek. Beyond those, the rest of the 19 Ashtabula County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 677 domestic wells within 5 miles of Austinburg: the median is 75 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 55 and 117 feet. The median well was logged at 5 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 47 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
A quarter of the 596 local logs that record a yield show 2 or less, so it happens. A slow well can still run a house if it is set up for it: water standing in the bore acts as storage, the pump suits the refill rate, and a larger pressure tank covers short bursts of use.
Casing holds back the loose ground and keeps surface water from running down into the well. It is usually seated in the top of the rock and sealed around the outside, with open hole below. With rock between 25 and 106 feet down in the middle half of local logs, that seat can land at very different depths.
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WATER PROBLEMSIron and manganese in well water: what causes it and how a test confirms it.
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