MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO · 33 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Most of a typical North Jackson well is drilled rock. In the logs within 5 miles, wells finish a median 115 feet down, while rock starts a median 25 feet down, and within 15 feet in one log in four. Casing, at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, seals off the loose ground at the top. Everything below it is rock.
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WHAT WE DO IN NORTH JACKSON
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.
Reverse osmosis at the kitchen sink is the usual answer when a lab test of a North Jackson well finds nitrate, arsenic, lead, PFAS or high dissolved solids. The Atlas Filtri Oasis Sanic handles those at one tap, leaving whole-house treatment for whatever else a test shows.
The town is 14th of 21 Mahoning County towns by median depth, and the middle half of logs finish between 80 and 156 feet. Rock starts between 15 and 40 feet down in the middle half.
Water rests a median 30 feet down, between 16 and 48 in the middle half, and yields run 10 to 20 gallons a minute. A submersible pump works down in the well. Above ground, the pressure switch turns the pump on and off and the tank stores water under pressure.
WELLS AROUND NORTH JACKSON
The 1,461 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of North Jackson, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 80–156 ft
middle half 10–20 gpm
middle half 15–40 ft
1,331 wells; middle half 16–48 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Across the 1,358 North Jackson logs that record it, the soil and loose ground above the rock is 15 to 40 feet thick in the middle half. That layer is cased off with pipe set down into the rock and grouted around the outside, and below it the hole is open rock to the bottom.
That is work for an air rotary rig, which blows the cuttings out with compressed air as its bit turns. The rock mapped at the town center is the Allegheny and Pottsville Groups, Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, limestone and sandstone, and a well takes its water from the beds and fractures the hole crosses. The cost page explains how footage and casing make up a quote.
Pressure trouble on a well usually traces to one of four parts: the well itself, the pump, the pressure switch or the pressure tank. A well drawn down faster than it refills gives out during long draws, and a worn pump delivers less. A switch with worn contacts can fail to start the pump. A tank that has lost its air charge makes the pump click on and off at every tap.
Diagnosis tests each part in turn. Emergency pump repair covers a pump that has stopped, and a well inspection measures the yield and where the water stands, between 16 and 48 feet down in the middle half of North Jackson logs.
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 JACKSON 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 33 minutes and 19 miles by road from North Jackson. Service calls for North Jackson are scheduled from there.
North Jackson and the municipalities around it: Jackson Township, Lordstown, Austintown Township, Milton Township, Ellsworth Township, Canfield, Craig Beach, Weathersfield Township, Newton Township, Canfield 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 1,461 domestic wells within 5 miles of North Jackson: the median is 115 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 80 and 156 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 25 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Check the breaker for the pump circuit first. If the power is on and there is still no water, call the Cortland office at (330) 828-6060 for emergency pump repair and diagnostics. Note what happened before it stopped, such as clicking, low pressure or cloudy water, since that helps the diagnosis.
A little shallower, at the median and at both ends of the middle half. North Jackson's logs run 80 to 156 feet in the middle half, where the county's domestic wells run 85 to 165, and its median of 115 feet, against the county's 120, ranks 14th of 21 towns.
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