COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO · 57 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Around Rogers, the shallower wells look like the rest of Columbiana County’s, with a quarter finished by 95 feet, but the deep end runs further: a quarter of local logs pass 222 feet, where the county’s deeper quarter begins at 200. The median, 141 feet, ranks eighth of 21 towns.
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WHAT WE DO IN ROGERS
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.
Orange staining is the complaint to expect: iron topped the 0.3 mg/L staining line in 79% of the Columbiana County wells USGS sampled. A water test measures iron and manganese at your tap, and the FerronX Iron System removes both.
Rock is reached at a median 23 feet, close to the 25-foot minimum Ohio’s private-well rules set for casing, and between 10 and 40 in the middle half of logs. The Allegheny and Pottsville Groups are mapped under the town.
Water rests a median 60 feet down, and half the wells yield 10 gallons per minute or less, 6 or less in a quarter. That favors a submersible set well below the water and a tank large enough to limit short cycling.
WELLS AROUND ROGERS
The 1,675 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Rogers, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 95–222 ft
middle half 6–20 gpm
middle half 10–40 ft
1,522 wells; middle half 35–100 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
Ohio DNR’s domestic well logs for Columbiana County put the median at 135 feet, with the middle half from 95 to 200. The 1,675 Rogers logs within 5 miles share that 95-foot shallow end exactly, then run longer: the median is 141 feet and the deeper quarter starts at 222. Most local wells land in a familiar range, and the ones that don’t tend to go deep.
For a new well, then, the county picture is a fair first guess, with extra room left at the top of the budget. How much a new well costs follows the footage, and residential well drilling explains how the finish depth is set once enough water comes in.
Yields near Rogers are modest: the median log records 10 gallons per minute, the slowest quarter 6 or less and the best quarter 20 or more. Resting water sits a median 60 feet down, 35 feet or less in a shallower quarter of wells and 100 or more in a deeper one.
Those two numbers set the pump. It hangs below the water level with room for the drop while it runs, and its output stays within what the well gives back. On the slower wells, a larger pressure tank also lengthens the rest between pump starts, which gives the well time to recover. Pump system design handles the match, and a correctly set pressure switch keeps an older system from short cycling.
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 ROGERS 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 57 minutes and 45 miles by road from Rogers. Service calls for Rogers are scheduled from there.
Rogers and the municipalities around it: New Waterford, Unity Township, East Palestine, Fairfield Township, Lisbon, Columbiana, Darlington Township, South Beaver Township, Leetonia. Beyond those, the rest of the 21 Columbiana County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 1,675 domestic wells within 5 miles of Rogers: the median is 141 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 95 and 222 feet. The median well was logged at 10 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 23 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Only if the water calls for it. The 141-foot median is where half the local wells stopped, not a target. A well is drilled until it has crossed enough water for the home, which a quarter of wells nearby managed by 95 feet and another quarter only past 222. When to stop is settled by the yield measured as drilling goes on.
It is a sensible habit. A well inspection looks at the wellhead, pump and pressure tank and measures the flow, which can be compared with what the well gave before. With modest yields here, a median 10 gallons per minute, a pump that is working harder than it should is easier to deal with early than after it fails.
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