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Best well drillers in Pike County, Illinois
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 56 drilling companies with wells
on record in Pike County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 699 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.
56companies on record
8active since 2022
699wells in county record
| # | Company | In Pike Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Erwin, James R. | 6 | 6 | 38 |
| 2 | Kelly, Timothy | 5 | 5 | 78 |
| 3 | Skinner, Todd | 5 | 5 | 572 |
| 4 | Dragovich, Mark G. | 2 | 2 | 321 |
| 5 | Gingerich, Corwin | 2 | 2 | 331 |
| 6 | Gelement, Val | 1 | 1 | 95 |
| 7 | Shoemaker & Sons Drilling | — | 162 | 407 |
| 8 | Shoemaker, John E. | — | 93 | 170 |
| 9 | Callihan, Michael M. | — | 82 | 228 |
| 10 | Erwin, James | — | 69 | 101 |
| 11 | Pohlman, Herman J. | — | 51 | 369 |
| 12 | Rimbey, Brian | — | 29 | 201 |
| 13 | Sisk, Gary Drill Co. | — | 29 | 114 |
| 14 | Cole, Raymond J. | — | 24 | 1,228 |
| 15 | Johnson, James P. | — | 24 | 507 |
| 16 | Shoemaker, Cole | — | 14 | 25 |
| 17 | Calhoun Drlg. Co. | — | 8 | 29 |
| 18 | Warth, William | — | 7 | 151 |
| 19 | Brotcke Engineering | — | 7 | 35 |
| 20 | Bush, Henry L. | — | 6 | 649 |
| 21 | St. Charles Drilling Co. | — | 5 | 480 |
| 22 | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. | — | 5 | 123 |
| 23 | Sims, Ronald M. Sr. | — | 4 | 602 |
| 24 | Swan, Karl F. | — | 4 | 60 |
| 25 | Warth, Bill | — | 4 | 27 |
| 26 | Berg Well & Pump | — | 3 | 551 |
| 27 | Layne-Western Co. | — | 3 | 1,635 |
| 28 | Kremer, Jack Lee | — | 3 | 797 |
| 29 | Mckinney, Ted | — | 3 | 313 |
| 30 | Bjorklund, Lloyd A. | — | 3 | 162 |
| 31 | Cook, George Jr. | — | 3 | 45 |
| 32 | Walters, Steven | — | 2 | 1,494 |
| 33 | Wiesenhofer, Andrew | — | 2 | 1,489 |
| 34 | Beckett, Donald | — | 2 | 911 |
| 35 | Hatfield, Larry | — | 2 | 93 |
| 36 | Grosch, Gottlieb W. | — | 2 | 90 |
| 37 | Dirks, Michael J. | — | 2 | 87 |
| 38 | Brotcke, Paul | — | 2 | 30 |
| 39 | Chadwick, G. W. | — | 2 | 29 |
| 40 | Haake, Ralph | — | 1 | 903 |
| 41 | Kohnen, Clarence | — | 1 | 13,419 |
| 42 | Reynolds, Joseph R. | — | 1 | 2,516 |
| 43 | Baker, Earl Jr. | — | 1 | 1,933 |
| 44 | Albrecht, S. Dean | — | 1 | 1,880 |
| 45 | Hopson, Seldon C | — | 1 | 1,004 |
| 46 | Bergschneider, Richard | — | 1 | 988 |
| 47 | Albrecht, Dean S. | — | 1 | 703 |
| 48 | Grosch, Wayne A. | — | 1 | 545 |
| 49 | Sloan, Thomas F. | — | 1 | 463 |
| 50 | Miller, J. P. Art. Well | — | 1 | 299 |
| 51 | Miller, Alfred Hampton | — | 1 | 267 |
| 52 | Grosch Irrigation | — | 1 | 185 |
| 53 | Rimbey, Jesse Dick | — | 1 | 125 |
| 54 | Layne & Western Co. | — | 1 | 114 |
| 55 | Chadwick, George W. | — | 1 | 66 |
| 56 | IL State Water Survey | — | 1 | 33 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Pike 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 Pike County?
Erwin, James R. has drilled the most Pike County wells in the recent record — 6 since 2016, 6 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Pike County?
56 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Pike County; 8 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 Pike County?
The median drilled depth in Pike County is 120 ft, based on 1,008 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Pike County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Pike County wells page.
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