The 300 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Cambridge Springs, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Shallow Wells Near Cambridge Springs
Wells near Cambridge Springs are among the shallowest in Crawford County, 15th of 16 towns by median depth. Rock doesn’t come up especially early, though. The 216 logs that record bedrock put it at a median 28 feet, so a short well spends a good part of its depth above rock, and the open rock below the casing can be a short stretch.
The rock mapped under the town is the Venango Formation, a Late Devonian mix that includes conglomerate, a rock of cemented pebbles, alongside siltstone, sandstone and shale. The map can’t say what one hole will meet or what it will yield. Well drilling explains how the method is chosen for the ground, and a submersible pump is sized from the well’s own flow test.
Cambridge Springs Borough Taps and Township Wells
Who looks after what depends on which side of the borough line you’re on. Borough homes take water drawn from French Creek, treated at the borough plant and delivered through 713 service connections. The Cambridge Springs treatment page covers the plant. The borough looks after the supply, and the owner looks after the plumbing inside.
On a township well, the whole chain belongs to the homeowner: the well and its cap, the casing, the pump, the switch, the pressure tank and the wiring between them. Yields vary a good deal from one well to the next, so a replacement pump is sized from what your well gives rather than from a neighbor’s. A well inspection looks at each part in turn and measures the flow.
