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Base from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources; 

scale 1:24,000. Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates, 

North American Datum of 1983; National Geodetic

Vertical Datum of 1929.

ESTIMATED WATER LEVELS IN THE BEDROCK/UNCONSOLIDATED AQUIFERS IN AND AROUND THE TUSCARAWAS RIVER BASIN, OHIO

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5010

Water-level map—PLATE 1

Haefner, R.J., and Simonson, L.A., 2010, Summary of hydrologic data

for the Tuscarawas River Basin, Ohio, with an annotated bibliography: 

U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010−5010.

PREPARED IN COOPERATION WITH THE

STARK-TUSCARAWAS-WAYNE JOINT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT

Compiled by

R.J. Haefner and L.A. Simonson

 

2010

EXPLANATION

SURFACE WATER 800

URBAN AREAS

AREAS WHERE THE WATER-LEVEL SURFACE

WAS NOT MAPPED BECAUSE OF 

INSUFFICIENT DATA

82° 81°

41°

40°

Water-level contours from Michael Angle, Kelly Barrett, Dennis Crist, Kathy Sprowls, 

and James Raab, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water, 2006. 

TUSCARAWAS RIVER BASIN BOUNDARY

COUNTY BOUNDARY

WATER-LEVEL CONTOUR

varies from 100 feet in the northern part of the basin to 150 feet in the 

Shows approximate altitude at which 

W A Y N E

S U M M I T

M E D I N A

H O L M E S

C O S H O C T O N

H A R R I S O N

P O R T A G E

M A H O N I N G

S T A R K

C A R R O L L

G U E R N S E Y

T U S C A R A W A S

B E L M O N T

New Philadelphia

Millersburg

Cuyahoga Falls

Wooster

Akron

North Canton

Alliance

Carrollton

Medina

Barberton

Dover

Wadsworth

Newcomerstown Cadiz

Cambridge

Massillon

Coshocton

Canton

southern part. Datum is National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

Tuscarawas River

Lake

Mohawk

Sandy Creek

Barberton

Reservoir

Portage

Lakes

Chippewa Creek

Tappan

Lake

Atwood

Lake

Leesville

Lake

Stillwater Creek

Tuscarawas River

Connotton Creek

Nimishillen

Creek

Tuscarawas River

Tuscarawas River

Nimisila

Reservoir

C O L U M B I A N A

J E F F E R S O N

M U S K I N G U M

0 10 20 MILES

0 10 20 KILOMETERS

Clendening

Lake

Little Stillwater Creek

Piedmont

Lake

Conotton

Little Sandy Creek

Middle Branch

McGuire

Indian Fork

Creek

Creek

Sugar Creek

Tuscarawas River

South Fork

Sugar Creek

Chippewa Creek

Chippewa Creek

Little

Chippewa

Lake

Tuscarawas River

Stillwater Creek

The contour lines shown in this map were drawn by synthesizing

water levels from several thousand drillers’ well logs for bedrock 

and sand and gravel aquifers throughout the basin; the logs were 

created over a 30-year period (the locations of many of these wells 

are shown in figure 14 as small gray dots). The process employed to 

create these contours follows: First, the elevations of the water 

levels in the well logs were plotted on 1:24,000 scale, 7.5-minute 

topographic maps. These data were contoured to create the 

water-level map. The water-level contours were then refined in the 

consideration of the topographic contours and locations and 

elevations of the surface-water bodies. The contours were then 

digitized into a GIS, coded with appropriate contour values, and 

aligned with contours on adjoining 7.5-minute maps.

This map incorporates water-level data from many different aquifers

and from wells of varied construction. Therefore, no inferences can 

be made concerning water levels in specific aquifers or whether 

flow occurs between aquifers. The map is drawn at an approximate 

scale of 1:195,000 so that the entire basin can be shown on one 

plate. At this scale, the overall configuration of the water-level 

surface likely has not changed substantially during the past 20 or 

30 years; thus, the actual date of water-level measurement was not 

considered to affect the resulting contours. A relatively large 

contour interval of 50 ft was used in the original contouring; 

however, the map uses contour intervals ranging from 100 to 150 ft 

to permit plotting of the water-level surface within the entire basin.

water would have stood in tightly cased, nonpumping wells--contour interval