Campton runs from the Pemigewasset up both sides of the Mad River toward Waterville Valley, with I-93 cutting straight through the middle. About thirty-three hundred people, half a dozen villages depending on who’s counting, and three different kinds of water — a small village precinct system, the Waterville Estates district, and a private well everywhere else. We’ll ask which one you’re on before anything else.
Campton was granted twice — once in 1761, again in 1767, which is the date it counts as its incorporation — and the name is supposed to come from the camp the proprietors put up while they surveyed it. It covers fifty-two and a half square miles, nearly all of it land. The White Mountain National Forest takes in the northeast and northwest corners, and Mount Weetamoo, at 2,548 feet, is the high point.
The villages are still the way to give directions. Campton Upper Village and the Town House of 1855 on Route 175. Lower Village, Campton Hollow, West Campton. Blair, where the 1870 covered bridge crosses the Pemigewasset — 292 feet, the second longest bridge of its kind entirely inside New Hampshire. And Beebe River, a mill village that a lumber company built from nothing in 1917.
The water is where it gets particular. The Campton Village Precinct runs a public system that serves roughly six hundred people, and the village has been paying water rent for well over a century. Up toward Thornton, the Waterville Estates Village District has owned its own community water system since 1981 — 833 properties on 829 acres. Everybody else in town has a well, a pump and a pressure tank of their own.
Before you call any plumber in Campton, know whose water you’re on — the village precinct, Waterville Estates, or your own well. It tells us where the shut-off is, and that’s the first five minutes of any job.
Seasonal shutdowns and spring startups, done methodically and documented in writing.
Tank and tankless, sized for your house and our cold inlet water — not just matched to the old one.
Faucets, toilets, shut-off valves, tub and shower work, and remodel rough-in.
Emergency or routine, year-round house or seasonal camp — tell us what’s going on and we’ll give you a straight answer on cost and timing.
Describe what’s happening and where the property is. We’ll come back with a straight answer on what it likely is, what it should cost, and when we can be there. If it’s an emergency, say so in the first line.
We reply to every request within 2 business hours.
