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Noble County

Septic services in Dexter City, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Dexter City

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 Dexter City

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Dexter City — 32,038 acres across 146 soil map units — it rates 91.6% of the land very limited for that use and 0.1% 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 Dexter City the leading one is slope on 81.8% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 70%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope81.8%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Slow water movement70%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to bedrock31.2%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Unstable fill18.7%—
Depth to saturated zone12.6%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 91.7%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Dexter City. Lowell alone accounts for 21.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Lowell21.4% Well drained 8 to 70% 50 in Very limited
Gilpin16.1% Well drained 3 to 70% 26 in Very limited
Upshur8.7% Well drained 6 to 70% 23 in Very limited
Morristown7.7% Well drained 0 to 70% None in profile Very limited
Bethesda7.4% Well drained 0 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 Dexter City (GNIS 2398720, 39.6593, -81.4744), 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: Noble County, Ohio (2025-09-02), Washington County, Ohio (2025-09-08). 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 Noble County

In Noble 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 Noble County detail →