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Jackson County

Septic services in Oak Hill, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Oak Hill

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here was on the ODH 2026 sewage treatment system bond lists on the date its record shows, and the address it is placed by comes from that same list, so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. An Ohio bond covers work in any health district in the state, though each district registers its contractors separately, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Soil and septic suitability around Oak Hill

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Oak Hill — 32,033 acres across 106 soil map units — it rates 89.3% of the land very limited for that use and 5.9% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Oak Hill the leading one is slope on 60% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 55.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope60%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone55.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement49.3%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to bedrock28.9%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Seepage, bottom layer17%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 95.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Oak Hill. Clymer alone accounts for 11.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Clymer11.7% Well drained 3 to 50% 42 in Very limited
Omulga11.4% Moderately well drained 0 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Latham10.3% Moderately well drained 8 to 40% 32 in Very limited
Wharton10% Moderately well drained 2 to 35% 46 in Very limited
Rigley8.5% Well drained 8 to 70% None in profile Very limited

“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Oak Hill (GNIS 2399537, 38.8973, -82.5693), chosen because five of this state's communities are unincorporated and have no boundary to use, and because the lots that need a septic permit are in the ring around a town rather than inside it. Soil from USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access, SSURGO interpretation “ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields”, area-weighted by mapped acreage and by each component's share of its map unit. Survey areas: Gallia County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Jackson County, Ohio (2025-08-29), Lawrence County, Ohio (2025-09-02). Retrieved 2026-09-18.

This is a survey, not an evaluation of your lot. The permit decision rests on the site evaluation ODH carries out for the specific parcel.

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Permitting in Jackson County

In Jackson County a septic (sewage treatment system) permit is issued by the local board of health, not by the state. The Ohio Department of Health writes the rules; the health district applies them and registers the contractors who work in it. See the Jackson County detail →