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Best well drillers in Fayette County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 49 drilling companies with wells on record in Fayette County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,483 logged wells in the Illinois State Geological Survey water well records (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to the public record.

49companies on record
11active since 2022
2,483wells in county record
#CompanyIn Fayette Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Haake, Ralph 45 126 903
2 Gebke, Randy 21 21 97
3 Durbin, Kandra M. 11 11 149
4 Beckett, Donald 7 68 911
5 Durbin, Dominique 7 10 109
6 Harry T Waters 3 4 91
7 S & J Well Drilling 3 3 511
8 Skinner, Todd 2 2 572
9 Hemmen, Jake 2 2 27
10 Kelly, Timothy 1 1 78
11 Ray Mueller 1 1 33
12 Erwin, James R. 1 1 38
13 Kohnen, Clarence — 1,224 13,419
14 Courson, Roger — 211 1,463
15 Walters, Steven — 159 1,494
16 Baker, Earl Jr. — 117 1,933
17 Link, Harold F. — 72 1,395
18 Hollinshead, Charles — 63 185
19 Charles Hollinshead — 62 224
20 Noll, Gary E. — 57 2,783
21 Courson, Richard C. — 54 144
22 Beasley, Eugene B. — 45 1,135
23 Arron Baum — 39 302
24 Bekemeyer, Gust — 29 991
25 Baum, Arron — 18 270
26 Randy Gebke — 13 68
27 Baker, E. C. & Sons — 11 255
28 Woodward, Lawrence — 8 421
29 Jacobs, Ray E. — 7 222
30 Wilson, Carline — 6 111
31 Hacker, Tim — 5 388
32 Ready, Dale — 5 42
33 Speth, James — 4 1,212
34 Wilson, Carl — 3 119
35 Green, William E. — 3 38
36 Sloan, Thomas F. — 2 463
37 Kohnen, Clarence E. — 2 172
38 Texaco, Inc. — 2 27
39 Natural Gas Pipeline Co. OF America — 2 25
40 Reynolds, Joseph R. — 1 2,516
41 Luttrell, Gerald Dean — 1 553
42 St. Charles Drilling Co. — 1 480
43 Luttrell, James — 1 459
44 Fleming, Rodney K. — 1 317
45 Hayes & Sims — 1 124
46 Woodward, Larry A. — 1 62
47 Green, William Ernest — 1 38
48 IL State Water Survey — 1 33
49 Tegeler, Brian J. — 1 27

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?

49 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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