MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 27 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Austintown's wells are among the shallowest in Mahoning County, joint 20th of 21 towns by median depth, and rock comes up close: a median 21 feet down in the logs within 5 miles, and 13 feet or less in one log in four. Ohio's private-well rules still call for at least 25 feet of casing, so here it often reaches into the rock.
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WHAT WE DO IN AUSTINTOWN
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.
The town center is inside the Youngstown city system's service area on EPA's map. Every lead round on its record is under the 0.015 mg/L action level, all but one recorded as zero. Those are system figures; if a test at your own tap finds lead, reverse osmosis at the sink is the usual answer.
The middle half of logged wells finish between 76 and 141 feet, so drilled footage tends to run lower than in most of the county. With rock this shallow, most of that length is open hole in rock, below casing that runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules.
Water rests a median 25 feet down, and within 15 feet in one log in four. Yields in the middle half run 10 to 20 gallons a minute. A submersible pump set below the water, with a pressure tank matched to it, is the usual arrangement.
WELLS AROUND AUSTINTOWN
The 1,144 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Austintown, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 76–141 ft
middle half 10–20 gpm
middle half 13–34 ft
1,070 wells; middle half 15–43 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Of the 1,072 logs near Austintown that record where rock begins, the middle half find it between 13 and 34 feet down. Casing is pipe set from the surface down into that rock and grouted around the outside, so water from the soil can't travel down beside it. With rock this shallow, Ohio's private-well rules set the length instead: casing runs at least 25 feet, so it often goes some way into the rock, and the hole below it stays open in rock.
The rock mapped at the town center is the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone. A rock well takes its water from whatever beds and fractures the hole crosses. Residential drilling walks through the job, and the well cost page explains how footage and casing figure in.
In the logs near Austintown, resting water sits between 15 and 43 feet down in the middle half. With the water this high, the pump usually doesn't hang far. A submersible pump goes in below the level the water falls to while it runs, with some margin, and usually clear of the bottom of the hole.
Pumps are sized from the well's yield, 10 to 20 gallons a minute in the middle half here, together with the lift and the pressure the house runs at. A pressure tank matched to the pump stops it from starting every time a tap opens, and a repair visit checks the pump, switch and tank together when pressure starts to slip.
WATER IN MAHONING COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Mahoning County, taken 1978–2001, 60% of wells were hard or very hard. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Mahoning County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY AUSTINTOWN CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“We bought a new home November 1st, 2024 and low and behold it had a collapsed well. After several quotes, we chose Chatfield drilling, and we’re glad we did! Matt & his team arrived quickly to assess the situation, and formulate a plan to get the H2O flowing again. Even through the holidays, they did not waiver. Eric their driller worked hard in the brutal NE Ohio cold to pound a well for us. We are beyond pleased, and have fantastic water!”
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 27 minutes and 21 miles by road from Austintown. Service calls for Austintown are scheduled from there.
Austintown and the municipalities around it: Austintown Township, Canfield, Weathersfield Township, McDonald, Jackson Township, Canfield Township, Niles, Girard, Youngstown, Lordstown. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Mahoning County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,144 domestic wells within 5 miles of Austintown: the median is 102 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 76 and 141 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 21 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Footage is one of the main parts of a well quote, so a well that finds enough water at a shallower depth takes less drilling. Casing is another matter: it runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, however close the rock is. The final depth isn't known until the hole meets enough water, so a quote allows for it. The cost page on this site explains the other parts.
EPA's map puts the town center inside the Youngstown City system's service area. It is a local-government system with 52,603 connections, supplied with filtered surface water bought from the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District. Homes on the line get their water report from the utility; homes on a private well rely on their own test.
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