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Best well drillers in Fayette County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 48 drilling companies with wells on record in Fayette County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,481 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.

48companies on record
11active since 2022
2,481wells in county record
#CompanyIn Fayette Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Haake, Ralph 45 126 798
2 Gebke, Randy 21 21 93
3 Durbin, Kandra M. 11 11 143
4 Beckett, Donald 7 68 655
5 Durbin, Dominique 7 10 102
6 Harry T Waters 3 4 89
7 S & J Well Drilling 3 3 478
8 Skinner, Todd 2 2 562
9 Hemmen, Jake 2 2 27
10 Kelly, Timothy 1 1 70
11 Ray Mueller 1 1 30
12 Erwin, James R. 1 1 36
13 Kohnen, Clarence 1,224 12,561
14 Courson, Roger 211 1,443
15 Walters, Steven 159 1,374
16 Baker, Earl Jr. 117 1,667
17 Link, Harold F. 72 1,386
18 Hollinshead, Charles 63 183
19 Charles Hollinshead 62 219
20 Noll, Gary E. 57 2,513
21 Courson, Richard C. 54 143
22 Beasley, Eugene B. 45 1,106
23 Arron Baum 39 223
24 Bekemeyer, Gust 29 919
25 Baum, Arron 18 187
26 Randy Gebke 13 50
27 Baker, E. C. & Sons 11 232
28 Woodward, Lawrence 8 388
29 Jacobs, Ray E. 7 221
30 Wilson, Carline 6 107
31 Hacker, Tim 5 364
32 Ready, Dale 5 42
33 Speth, James 4 1,113
34 Wilson, Carl 3 109
35 Green, William E. 3 38
36 Sloan, Thomas F. 2 448
37 Kohnen, Clarence E. 2 159
38 Texaco, Inc. 2 25
39 Reynolds, Joseph R. 1 2,477
40 Luttrell, Gerald Dean 1 545
41 St. Charles Drilling Co. 1 463
42 Luttrell, James 1 406
43 Fleming, Rodney K. 1 314
44 Hayes & Sims 1 115
45 Woodward, Larry A. 1 60
46 Green, William Ernest 1 38
47 IL State Water Survey 1 26
48 Tegeler, Brian J. 1 26

Ranked by wells drilled in Fayette 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 Fayette County?

Haake, Ralph has drilled the most Fayette County wells in the recent record — 45 since 2016, 126 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Fayette County?

48 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Fayette County; 11 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 Fayette County?

The median drilled depth in Fayette County is 41 ft, based on 2,761 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Fayette County wells page.

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

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