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Best well drillers in Coles County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 56 drilling companies with wells on record in Coles County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,149 logged wells in the Illinois State Geological Survey water well records (records as of 2026-08-20). Every number links back to the public record.

56companies on record
9active since 2022
1,149wells in county record
#CompanyIn Coles Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Skinner, Todd 11 37 562
2 Durbin, Kandra M. 7 7 143
3 Gaza, John Edward 2 2 97
4 Baker, J. Curtis 1 9 55
5 Harriss, Chuck 1 1 61
6 Tri County Irrigation & 1 1 39
7 Hemmen, Jake 1 1 27
8 Baker, Earl Jr. 367 1,667
9 Kohnen, Clarence 229 12,561
10 Luttrell, Gerald Dean 66 545
11 Luttrell, James 50 406
12 Sloan, Thomas F. 45 448
13 Fleming, Rodney K. 34 314
14 Jeff Crank % Harriss Drilling 34 35
15 Toops, Floyd 32 33
16 Fleming, Daniel D. 26 146
17 Fleming, D. D. 25 115
18 Courson, Roger 22 1,443
19 Erwin, Harold E. 21 545
20 Jacobs, Ray E. 19 221
21 Ryan, John H. 11 116
22 Reynolds, Joseph R. 10 2,477
23 Baker, Donald K. 9 82
24 Reynolds Well Drilling 8 1,657
25 Luttrel, James 7 55
26 Sims, Ronald M. Sr. 6 590
27 S & J Well Drilling 5 478
28 Miller, Claude W. 5 208
29 Haake, Ralph 4 798
30 Baker, E. C. & Sons 4 232
31 Arron Baum 4 223
32 Green, William Ernest 4 38
33 Tegeler, Brian J. 4 26
34 Wiesenhofer, Andrew 3 1,411
35 Knierim, James 3 897
36 Sims, R. Marc Jr. 3 840
37 Cook, George 3 305
38 Van Gilder, Richard E. 3 136
39 Link, Harold F. 2 1,386
40 Beckett, Donald 2 655
41 Charles Hollinshead 2 219
42 Hollinshead, Charles 2 183
43 Kohnen, Clarence E. 2 159
44 Sims Drilling Co. 2 133
45 Sims, Ronald M. Jr. 2 87
46 Greg A. Evans 1 102
47 Walters, Steven 1 1,374
48 Hopson, Seldon C 1 974
49 Erwin, James Ray 1 466
50 Jones, Gerald K. 1 388
51 Miles & Sons 1 186
52 Ruester, John T. 1 166
53 Woodward, Larry A. 1 60
54 Smith Well Drilling 1 60
55 Randy Gebke 1 50
56 Gobel, Joseph Louis 1 42

Ranked by wells drilled in Coles County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full ISGS record. A ★ marks a featured sponsor — sponsors must appear in the county record to be listed, and the ranking below them is never reordered.

Who drills the most wells in Coles County?

Skinner, Todd has drilled the most Coles County wells in the recent record — 11 since 2016, 37 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Coles County?

56 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Coles County; 9 of them have drilled somewhere in Illinois since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Coles County?

The median drilled depth in Coles County is 65 ft, based on 1,540 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Coles County wells page.

Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Coles County wells page.

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