CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA · 81 MIN FROM OUR GREENVILLE OFFICE
A new well around Hydetown means planning for footage, casing down to rock, and a pump that may need to hang deep. By median depth, local wells rank first of 16 Crawford County towns. Rock sits low too, at a median 39 feet in the 217 logs that record it, and a quarter went 58 feet or more before reaching it.
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WHAT WE DO IN HYDETOWN
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.
Testing comes first, then the order of treatment. The county’s USGS samples show hard water, iron and manganese in varying shares of wells, and iron and manganese come out ahead of a softener so they don’t coat its resin. A water test on a Hydetown well shows which of them apply.
Half the 293 depth logs fall between 70 and 143 feet, so a long hole is common here. Chatfield drills by air rotary or cable tool, and the hole is done once a flow test shows enough water, whatever the depth.
Yields are middling: a median 15 gallons per minute, with a quarter at 10 or less and a quarter at 20 or more. Depth can matter as much as flow here, since a submersible set deep has to be sized for the lift as well as the flow.
WELLS AROUND HYDETOWN
The 293 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Hydetown, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 70–143 ft
middle half 10–20 gpm
middle half 21–58 ft
PaGWIS records
Source: PaGWIS (PA DCNR), domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30; older paper-record locations are approximate.
Of 293 logs within 5 miles of Hydetown, half stopped by 102 feet and a quarter went past 143. A rock well is drilled until the fractures it crosses give enough water, so a deep median means many wells here had to go a long way before they did. The first water a driller meets isn’t always enough water.
Footage drives the cost of a well more than anything else, and a pump hung low in a deep hole also needs a longer run of drop pipe and wire. The new well cost page covers the other factors. Well drilling explains how a new well is developed and test-pumped before the pump goes in, which is when its real yield is known.
The 217 logs that note bedrock put it at a median 39 feet; a quarter found it by 21 feet and a quarter at 58 or more. Casing is normally set from the surface down into that rock, so on many lots around Hydetown it’s a longer run than on ground where rock sits near the top.
Depth matters again when a pump needs work. A submersible hung deep comes out on its full string of drop pipe and wire, a heavier pull than on a short well. Pump repair starts with diagnostics to find the fault. For a well that has lost flow over the years, well cleaning is the other route before anyone talks about a new hole.
WATER IN CRAWFORD COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Crawford County, taken 1928–2023, 77% of wells were hard or very hard, 35% carried iron above the staining line, 45% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Crawford County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY HYDETOWN 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 Greenville office (854 Mercer Rd., Greenville, PA 16125) is about 81 minutes and 50 miles by road from Hydetown. Service calls for Hydetown are scheduled from there.
Hydetown and the municipalities around it: Oil Creek Township, Titusville, Troy Township, Cherrytree Township, Steuben Township, Rome Township, Centerville, Plum Township, Oil Creek Township, Townville. Beyond those, the rest of the 16 Crawford County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Pennsylvania’s groundwater database (PaGWIS) lists 293 domestic wells within 5 miles of Hydetown: the median is 102 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 70 and 143 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 39 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Not bigger in flow, though it may need more lift. The pump raises water from the level the water stands at in the well, then on to the pressure the house needs, so a deep water level calls for a pump rated for that height. Its flow is still sized to what the well gives, a median 15 gallons per minute in the logs here, and to your household.
The geologic map puts Corry Sandstone through Riceville Formation at the town center: sandstone, shale and siltstone of Late Devonian age. That’s a map unit, not a measurement in each well, and it can’t tell you what one hole will yield. The log for your well records what the driller actually met, starting with the depth to rock.
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