MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 55 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Near Damascus, one logged well in four yields 25 gallons a minute or more, and the middle half give 10 to 25, so the upper end of the record can serve more than a house. The other number to know is depth to rock, a median 57 feet, which makes casing a big part of a typical new well here.
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WHAT WE DO IN DAMASCUS
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.
Drilling and pump work open a well to the surface, so a new or reworked Damascus well should be tested before the water goes into use. If bacteria show up and persist after the well is disinfected, a Luminor UV unit, fitted after filtration, is a common answer.
Damascus wells run deep, joint 5th of 21 Mahoning County towns by median depth, and the middle half of logs finish between 100 and 175 feet. Rock starts between 37 and 86 feet down in the middle half, so a new well usually carries a long casing run.
Water rests a median 34 feet down, between 20 and 50 in the middle half. A submersible pump sized from the test-pumped yield is the norm, and on a strong well a constant-pressure setup can hold pressure with several taps open.
WELLS AROUND DAMASCUS
The 1,769 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Damascus, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 100–175 ft
middle half 10–25 gpm
middle half 37–86 ft
1,583 wells; middle half 20–50 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Of the 1,575 logs near Damascus that record a yield, the median is 15 gallons a minute, the middle half fall between 10 and 25, and one in four gives 25 or more. A house seldom draws that much at once, so a well toward the top of the range leaves headroom: for steady pressure with several taps open, or for a barn, livestock or irrigation alongside the house. Commercial and agricultural drilling covers wells scoped to that kind of demand.
Yield is measured when a new well is test-pumped, and the submersible pump is chosen from that figure, the pumping level and the pressure wanted.
Rock near Damascus starts a median 57 feet down across 1,607 logs, and 86 feet or more in one log in four. Everything above it is soil and loose material, kept out of the well by casing: pipe set from the surface into the top of the rock, with grout filling the space outside it. That seal keeps surface water from running down beside the pipe.
Below the casing, the hole continues in rock. The rock mapped at the town center is the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone. For an older well, a well inspection checks the casing top and cap along with the pump and the flow. For a new one, residential drilling covers the steps.
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 DAMASCUS CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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“Chatfield Drilling replaced a submersible pump, extended our well casing above ground, and installed a sanitary cap at our farm house. This is our first experience with a well. Both Matt and Sam were happy to answer all of our questions, no matter how small, in a way that we could understand and enabled us to make informed decisions.”
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 55 minutes and 44 miles by road from Damascus. Service calls for Damascus are scheduled from there.
Damascus and the municipalities around it: Beloit, Goshen Township, Sebring, Smith Township, Salem, Berlin Township, Green Township, Alliance. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Mahoning County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,769 domestic wells within 5 miles of Damascus: the median is 125 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 100 and 175 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 57 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Very little that is local. Mahoning County's USGS samples, from 1978 and 2001, give hardness from 5 wells and pH from 7, and nothing on iron or manganese. They describe the county as a whole. A test at your home gives your own figures, and any treatment is chosen from those.
Usually, and that is useful rather than wasteful. The pump is still sized to what the house draws and to the lift from the pumping level, not to the well's full yield. The spare capacity means the pump is unlikely to outrun the well, and it leaves room to add a barn, a second building or irrigation later.
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