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Best well drillers in St. Clair County, Illinois
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 68 drilling companies with wells
on record in St. Clair County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 4,172 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.
68companies on record
12active since 2022
4,172wells in county record
| # | Company | In St. Clair Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Haake, Ralph | 85 | 158 | 798 |
| 2 | Dohrman, Dale Raymond | 36 | 436 | 770 |
| 3 | Beckett, Donald | 33 | 164 | 655 |
| 4 | Schmalfeldt, Todd | 31 | 34 | 197 |
| 5 | Ray Mueller | 12 | 12 | 30 |
| 6 | Gebke, Randy | 10 | 16 | 93 |
| 7 | Dowdy, Tony Jr. | 9 | 13 | 39 |
| 8 | Skouby, Charles A. | 8 | 11 | 118 |
| 9 | Greg A. Evans | 8 | 9 | 102 |
| 10 | Harriss, Chuck | 8 | 9 | 61 |
| 11 | Durbin, Kandra M. | 7 | 8 | 143 |
| 12 | Durbin, Dominique | 2 | 2 | 102 |
| 13 | Roberts, Charles Wayne | 1 | 75 | 258 |
| 14 | Hemmen, Jake | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| 15 | Kohnen, Clarence | — | 1,708 | 12,561 |
| 16 | Haudrich, Clyde Jerome | — | 164 | 1,121 |
| 17 | Noll, Gary E. | — | 159 | 2,513 |
| 18 | Dohrman, Raymond | — | 129 | 215 |
| 19 | St. Charles Drilling Co. | — | 96 | 463 |
| 20 | Kohnen, Clarence E. | — | 91 | 159 |
| 21 | Quality Farm Equip | — | 77 | 77 |
| 22 | Haudrich Drlg. | — | 76 | 373 |
| 23 | Wilson, Carl | — | 65 | 109 |
| 24 | Dohrman, Donald W. | — | 61 | 102 |
| 25 | Bekemeyer, Gust | — | 59 | 919 |
| 26 | Luhr Brothers, Inc. | — | 56 | 101 |
| 27 | Miller, Alfred Hampton | — | 50 | 246 |
| 28 | D & S Drilling | — | 44 | 273 |
| 29 | Davinroy, Mark | — | 40 | 100 |
| 30 | Chitwood, Charles P. | — | 27 | 110 |
| 31 | Watson, Harold L. | — | 27 | 29 |
| 32 | U S Army Corp OF Eng | — | 26 | 26 |
| 33 | Dragovich, Mark G. | — | 25 | 268 |
| 34 | NO Company | — | 25 | 508 |
| 35 | Layne Western Co., Inc. | — | 19 | 1,442 |
| 36 | Arron Baum | — | 18 | 223 |
| 37 | Baum, Arron | — | 17 | 187 |
| 38 | Pohlman, Herman J. | — | 15 | 367 |
| 39 | Hayes & Sims | — | 14 | 115 |
| 40 | D & M Builders | — | 14 | 52 |
| 41 | Ruester, John T. | — | 12 | 166 |
| 42 | Wilson, Carline | — | 12 | 107 |
| 43 | Bush, Henry L. | — | 11 | 638 |
| 44 | Randy Gebke | — | 11 | 50 |
| 45 | Hepp, Frank D. Jr. | — | 8 | 684 |
| 46 | Roberts Environmental | — | 7 | 30 |
| 47 | Sisk, Gary Drill Co. | — | 7 | 63 |
| 48 | Wiesenhofer, Andrew | — | 6 | 1,411 |
| 49 | Link, Harold F. | — | 5 | 1,386 |
| 50 | Walters, Steven | — | 5 | 1,374 |
| 51 | Gwin Drilling Co. | — | 4 | 477 |
| 52 | Norman E D | — | 4 | 37 |
| 53 | Haverstick Well & Equp | — | 4 | 26 |
| 54 | Baker, Earl Jr. | — | 3 | 1,667 |
| 55 | Beanland, John R. | — | 3 | 570 |
| 56 | Wilson, Arnold | — | 3 | 67 |
| 57 | Baker, E. C. & Sons | — | 2 | 232 |
| 58 | Hatfield, Larry | — | 2 | 85 |
| 59 | Mccord, Daniel | — | 2 | 35 |
| 60 | Phillip Services (Env.) | — | 2 | 26 |
| 61 | Brotcke Engineering | — | 2 | 25 |
| 62 | Callihan, Michael M. | — | 1 | 218 |
| 63 | Warth, William | — | 1 | 130 |
| 64 | Rimbey, Jesse Dick | — | 1 | 115 |
| 65 | Hayes & Sims Drlg | — | 1 | 54 |
| 66 | Crawford, H. | — | 1 | 43 |
| 67 | Jeff Crank % Harriss Drilling | — | 1 | 35 |
| 68 | Woodward, Lawrence F. | — | 1 | 28 |
Ranked by wells drilled in St. Clair 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 St. Clair County?
Haake, Ralph has drilled the most St. Clair County wells in the recent record — 85 since 2016, 158 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in St. Clair County?
68 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in St. Clair County; 12 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 St. Clair County?
The median drilled depth in St. Clair County is 79 ft, based on 4,597 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the St. Clair County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the St. Clair County wells page.
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