ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO · 27 MIN FROM OUR CORTLAND OFFICE
Flow is the strong point of wells around Williamsfield. The 418 logs within five miles that record a yield have a median of 15 gallons a minute, and one in four gives 30 or more. Wells run deep as well: 76 feet at the median, second of 19 Ashtabula County towns.
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WHAT WE DO IN WILLIAMSFIELD
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.
Limestone is among the rocks mapped at the town center, and water moving through limestone tends to pick up calcium. The county's USGS record, 9 wells, has a median hardness of 18.2 grains per gallon. A test of your own well sizes any LuxSoft water softener.
Half of the 420 logs that record bedrock reach it within 21 feet, and three in four within 31. Casing runs at least 25 feet under Ohio's private-well rules, and below it the hole goes on through rock, to 105 feet or more in a quarter of logs.
With this much flow, the pump is chosen for the job as much as for the well: the house alone, or a barn or irrigation too. Water levels vary widely, from 11 to 50 feet down in the middle half of 427 logs.
WELLS AROUND WILLIAMSFIELD
The 449 domestic wells on file within 5 miles of Williamsfield, from the state’s drilling logs: your neighbors’ wells, and the best guide to this ground.
middle half 60–105 ft
middle half 9–30 gpm
middle half 15–31 ft
427 wells; middle half 11–50 ft
Source: ODNR well logs, domestic wells within 5 miles, retrieved 2026-09-30.
The rock mapped at the town center is a group of formations rather than a single one: the Maxville Limestone with the Rushville, Logan and Cuyahoga Formations, Devonian to Mississippian in age. Between them they list shale, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate and limestone.
A map can't say which of those a given hole will cross, or where water will come in. The logs show how deep wells have gone to find it. Their median is 76 feet, against 60 across the county's 5,480 domestic logs, and the middle half runs from 60 to 105 feet. Well drilling covers the air rotary and cable tool methods used, and the cost page explains how depth figures into a price.
Of the 418 logs that record a yield, half show 15 gallons a minute or more, a quarter 30 or more and a quarter 9 or less. That spread gives room to plan a well for more than the kitchen and bathrooms, and farm and commercial wells are scoped from what they need to supply.
Where the pump hangs depends on the water level. The static level, where water rests with the pump off, has a median of 20 feet in 427 logs, but the middle half runs from 11 to 50. A submersible pump goes below that level with room for the drawdown while it runs, so the setting is worked out well by well from the test.
WATER IN ASHTABULA COUNTY
In USGS samples from across Ashtabula County, taken 1982–2016, 89% of wells were hard or very hard, 56% carried iron above the staining line, 78% had manganese above 0.05 mg/L. The full record, and what it means for treatment, is on the Ashtabula County page; your own well gets its own test.
WHY WILLIAMSFIELD 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 27 minutes and 18 miles by road from Williamsfield. Service calls for Williamsfield are scheduled from there.
Williamsfield and the municipalities around it: Williamsfield Township, West Shenango Township, Kinsman Township, Wayne Township, Andover, Andover Township, South Shenango Township, Gustavus Township, Cherry Valley Township, Jamestown. Beyond those, the rest of the 19 Ashtabula County communities on our service map, from the same office.
Ohio’s well-log database lists 449 domestic wells within 5 miles of Williamsfield: the median is 76 feet deep, and the middle half fall between 60 and 105 feet. The median well was logged at 15 gallons per minute. Drillers reached bedrock at a median of 21 feet. Your own well's depth depends on the ground under your lot.
Often, going by the local logs: half of the 418 that record a yield show 15 gallons a minute or more. A well in the slowest quarter, at 9 or less, may not stretch as far. Name every use before drilling, so the pump and pressure tank are sized for them.
It needs one sized to the pump. A pump moving a lot of water fills a small tank in seconds, then starts and stops often, which wears it. If the pump is sized up to use a strong well's flow, the tank grows with it. A constant-pressure setup is another way to handle it.
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