COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO · 62 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Plan a Negley well around the deep end of the range. A quarter of the 1,000 local logs went past 250 feet, and the 150-foot median ranks seventh-deepest of Columbiana County’s 21 towns. Yields at the low end are thin too, so a new well here is drilled until enough water comes in.
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WHAT WE DO IN NEGLEY
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.
Acidic water isn’t the usual problem here: the county’s USGS samples had a median pH of 7.1, and none fell below 6.5. Hardness, iron and manganese are the common findings, and a water test sorts out which of them your well needs treated.
Local logs run from 95 feet in the shallower quarter to 250 in the deeper one. Bedrock is reached at a median 20 feet, between 8 and 40 in the middle half, so casing runs Ohio’s 25-foot minimum on many lots and down to rock where it’s deeper.
Half the wells yield 10 gallons per minute or less, a quarter 4 or less. With water resting a median 61 feet down, a submersible set well below it and a pressure tank sized for a slower well is the usual pairing.
WELLS AROUND NEGLEY
The 1,000 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Negley, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 95–250 ft
middle half 4–20 gpm
middle half 8–40 ft
905 wells; middle half 37–110 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Across Columbiana County’s domestic well logs, the deeper quarter starts at 200 feet. Around Negley it starts at 250, and the local median of 150 feet sits above the county’s 135. That tail matters more for planning than the median does. A well that has to chase water past 250 feet is where budgets stretch, and what a new well costs explains how footage figures in.
The shallower quarter of local wells still finished by 95 feet, so a deep well is a possibility to plan for, not a certainty. Casing runs at least 25 feet under Ohio’s private-well rules, with rock a median 20 feet down. Residential well drilling covers how the driller decides where to stop.
Yield is the tighter constraint near Negley. The median is 10 gallons per minute, a quarter of wells record 4 or less, and only a quarter reach 20. Resting water stands a median 61 feet down, past 110 feet in the deepest quarter of wells, and it drops further while the pump runs.
On a slow well, a pressure tank with room to hold water between cycles eases the load, and a pump sized to the well keeps it from drawing the level to the intake. When the household needs more at once than the well delivers, a holding tank with a booster pump banks water the well refills at its own pace.
WATER IN COLUMBIANA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Columbiana County, taken 1986–2016, 86% of wells were hard or very hard, 79% carried iron above the staining line, 86% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Columbiana County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY NEGLEY CHOOSES CHATFIELD
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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 62 minutes and 46 miles by road from Negley. Service calls for Negley are scheduled from there.
Negley and the municipalities around it: East Palestine, Darlington Township, South Beaver Township, Rogers, Unity Township, New Waterford, Darlington, Enon Valley, Little Beaver Township, New Galilee. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Columbiana County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,000 domestic wells within 5 miles of Negley: the median is 150 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 95 and 250 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 20 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Water-bearing rock isn’t spread evenly underground. The Allegheny and Pottsville Groups mapped under the town are a mix of shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone, and a well is finished once it has crossed enough water for the home. One lot finds that early; another has to go much deeper. Only drilling shows which kind of lot you have.
Only if the well can keep up. Half the wells here yield 10 gallons per minute or less, and a quarter 4 or less, so extra demand should be checked against a flow test first. Where the well falls short, storage with a booster pump or a separate agricultural well are the usual options, and Chatfield drills both residential and agricultural wells.
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