MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 51 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
A North Benton well holds a long column of stored water. The wells rank third deepest in Mahoning County by median depth, with three logged wells in four 96 feet deep or more, yet water rests at 50 feet or less in three logs of four. That reserve is useful where yields run a median 12 gallons a minute.
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WHAT WE DO IN NORTH BENTON
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 USGS numbers come from only 5 wells for hardness and 7 for pH, with nothing on iron or manganese. Treat them as a rough county-wide picture. A test of a North Benton well shows whether an iron system, a softener or UV is needed at all.
The middle half of 1,734 logs finish between 96 and 180 feet, against 85 to 165 for the county's domestic wells. Rock begins a median 39 feet down, between 23 and 61 in the middle half, and the rest of the hole is open rock.
Yields run a median 12 gallons a minute, with 9 or less in one log in four. Water rests a median 32 feet down, so a submersible pump hung well below it can draw on the stored column before the inflow has to catch up.
WELLS AROUND NORTH BENTON
The 1,734 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of North Benton, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 96–180 ft
middle half 9–20 gpm
middle half 23–61 ft
1,589 wells; middle half 20–50 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
A drilled well is also a tank. Below the resting water level the bore stands full, and near North Benton that level sits between 20 and 50 feet down in the middle half of 1,589 logs. When the pump starts, it draws on that stored water first, and the rock refills the bore as the level falls.
That reserve helps most on wells at the lower end of the yield range, 9 gallons a minute or less in one log in four. A submersible pump set deep enough to use the stored column, with a pressure tank that lengthens each run, lets a modest well cover a household's peaks. On a slow well, drilling past the first water to add storage is decided as the hole goes down.
Wells here run deep, ranking third of 21 Mahoning County towns by median depth, at 130 feet. Rock starts a median 39 feet down across 1,627 logs, and 61 feet or more in one in four. Casing runs from the surface into the top of the rock and is grouted, so surface water can't follow the pipe down, and the hole below is open rock.
The rock mapped at the town center is the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone. Deep bedrock wells are air rotary work, a turning bit with compressed air lifting the cuttings. Residential drilling covers the job, and the cost page explains how depth and casing affect a quote.
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 NORTH BENTON CHOOSES CHATFIELD
Rated 4.7 on Google across 104 reviews. Here is what working with us looks like, in a customer’s words.
“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 51 minutes and 36 miles by road from North Benton. Service calls for North Benton are scheduled from there.
North Benton and the municipalities around it: Smith Township, Deerfield Township, Berlin Township, Sebring, Beloit, Goshen Township, Limaville, Lexington Township, Atwater 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 1,734 domestic wells within 5 miles of North Benton: the median is 130 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 96 and 180 feet. The median well was logged at 12 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 39 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Because the resting level is only where the water settles, not where it comes in. Water enters from the beds and fractures the hole crosses, and the bore below the resting level holds a store of it for the pump. On a slower well, extra depth adds to that store.
Pressure that fades during a long draw, such as filling a tub, and recovers after a rest. That pattern often means the pump is pulling the stored column down faster than the rock refills it. A well inspection measures the yield and the level under pumping. The fix may be a smaller pump, a larger tank or added storage.
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