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Best well drillers in Lawrence County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 34 drilling companies with wells on record in Lawrence County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,095 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.

34companies on record
3active since 2022
1,095wells in county record
#CompanyIn Lawrence Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Hacker, Tim 20 112 364
2 Speth, James 18 451 1,113
3 Scates, Stephen T. 5 6 62
4 Stinson, Larry 3 3 57
5 Jones, Gerald K. 1 26 388
6 Scates, Thomas L. 1 4 176
7 Hacker, Delbert 110 644
8 Hacker, Marvin 74 223
9 Speth, David A. 70 236
10 Speth, David 54 217
11 Sloan, Thomas F. 27 448
12 Potts, Paul W. 22 37
13 Abbott, Albert 19 337
14 Erwin, Harold E. 16 545
15 Tim Hacker 16 36
16 Gibbs Well Drilling 13 141
17 Jones, Gerald B. 12 313
18 Lowry, John H. 12 118
19 Hayes & Sims Drlg 7 54
20 Klein, Paul Steve 7 31
21 Kohnen, Clarence 6 12,561
22 Hayes & Sims 5 115
23 Grosch, Wayne A. 4 528
24 Van Gilder, Richard E. 4 136
25 Mckinney, Ted 3 310
26 Miller, Claude W. 3 208
27 Layne Western Co., Inc. 2 1,442
28 Baker, Earl Jr. 1 1,667
29 Baker, E. C. & Sons 1 232
30 Grosch Irrigation 1 166
31 Layne & Western Co. 1 110
32 Bartmess, John B. 1 51
33 Gobel, Joseph Louis 1 42
34 Whiston, George N. 1 29

Ranked by wells drilled in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County?

Hacker, Tim has drilled the most Lawrence County wells in the recent record — 20 since 2016, 112 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Lawrence County?

34 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Lawrence County; 3 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 Lawrence County?

The median drilled depth in Lawrence County is 98 ft, based on 1,267 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Lawrence County wells page.

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

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