MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 40 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Wells around Lowellville run shallower than most in Mahoning County, joint 18th of 21 towns by median depth, and three logs in four meet rock within 43 feet. The town center is mapped on the Maxville Limestone with the Rushville, Logan and Cuyahoga Formations, a mix of Devonian to Mississippian shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate and limestone.
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WHAT WE DO IN LOWELLVILLE
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.
Mahoning County's water-quality samples date from 1978 and 2001 and cover only a handful of wells. A current test of your own Lowellville well, on site or through a certified lab, is the better guide to what treatment, if any, it needs.
The middle half of 938 logs finish between 82 and 142 feet, against 85 to 165 for the county's domestic wells. Rock begins between 20 and 43 feet in the middle half, and casing runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, down to rock where it is deeper.
Water rests a median 26 feet down, within 15 feet in one log in four and 46 feet or more in another quarter. Yields in the middle half run 10 to 20 gallons a minute, and the pump is sized to the well's own tested figure.
WELLS AROUND LOWELLVILLE
The 938 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Lowellville, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 82–142 ft
middle half 10–20 gpm
middle half 20–43 ft
890 wells; middle half 15–46 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Geological maps put the town center on the Maxville Limestone and the Rushville, Logan and Cuyahoga Formations, a unit dated Devonian to Mississippian. Its rock types are listed as shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate and limestone. The map describes the town center, not each well, and wells a few miles out can sit on different rock.
The logs show a modest depth to rock, between 20 and 43 feet in the middle half of 881 logs. Casing runs from the surface into the top of the rock and is grouted, and the well carries on below it until the hole takes in enough water from the beds and fractures it crosses. Well drilling covers the air rotary and cable tool methods, and residential drilling the steps of the job.
A Lowellville well usually needs less drilling than most in the county. The town ranks joint 18th of 21 by median depth, and its deep quarter begins at 142 feet, well short of the county's 165. The cost page explains how drilled footage feeds into a quote.
For the pump, the water level matters more than the depth. The middle half of 890 logs put resting water between 15 and 46 feet. A submersible pump is set below the pumping level, the point the water falls to once the pump has run a while, so in a well with water near the top it hangs fairly high and the lift to the house stays short.
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 LOWELLVILLE 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 40 minutes and 27 miles by road from Lowellville. Service calls for Lowellville are scheduled from there.
Lowellville and the municipalities around it: Poland Township, Struthers, Campbell, Poland, Mahoning Township, Coitsville Township, Bessemer, New Middletown, Pulaski Township, Boardman Township. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Mahoning County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 938 domestic wells within 5 miles of Lowellville: the median is 105 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 82 and 142 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 30 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Only in broad terms. The map gives the unit at the town center, but water enters a well where the hole crosses a bed or fracture that gives it up, and the depth where that happens is found by drilling. Logged wells nearby finish between 82 and 142 feet in the middle half, with the yield recorded on most.
Yes. Bessemer, Pennsylvania, is among the nearby towns, and Chatfield works in both states, with Ohio EPA permit assistance on this side and PA DEP permit assistance on the other. Drilling, pumps, pressure systems and water treatment are the same services either side of the line.
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