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Best well drillers in Hardin County, Ohio
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 87 drilling companies with wells
on record in Hardin County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 3,037 logged
wells in the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Geological Survey water-well log database (records as of 2026-08-13). Every number links back to
the public record.
87companies on record
29active since 2022
3,037wells in county record
| # | Company | In Hardin Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | G H Bierly Inc. | 204 | 829 | 4,064 |
| 2 | Seismic Drilling Co. Inc. | 61 | 169 | 5,783 |
| 3 | Clear Water Well Drilling | 61 | 61 | 683 |
| 4 | Kniceley Well Drilling | 26 | 69 | 3,389 |
| 5 | Eaton Well Drilling Inc. | 18 | 19 | 1,309 |
| 6 | Ellsworth Well & Pump | 15 | 48 | 1,026 |
| 7 | Quinter Well Drilling LLC | 7 | 55 | 12,078 |
| 8 | Able Well & Pump | 5 | 10 | 1,093 |
| 9 | Maas Brothers Drilling | 5 | 5 | 518 |
| 10 | Boes Water Well Drilling | 5 | 5 | 348 |
| 11 | Sever Water Well Drilling | 4 | 243 | 4,250 |
| 12 | Kotterman Well Drilling | 3 | 67 | 4,232 |
| 13 | Britenstine Well Drilling | 2 | 133 | 713 |
| 14 | Mason Well Drilling | 2 | 17 | 908 |
| 15 | Central Soft Water | 2 | 2 | 1,489 |
| 16 | K & B Well Drilling Co. | 2 | 2 | 1,837 |
| 17 | Wes Britenstine Well Drilling | 1 | 120 | 786 |
| 18 | Eaton Well & Pump | 1 | 23 | 3,329 |
| 19 | Bushong Drilling | 1 | 18 | 852 |
| 20 | Flinner Drilling Inc. | 1 | 1 | 8,459 |
| 21 | Shidler & Wilder | 1 | 1 | 358 |
| 22 | Shulaw Well Drilling | — | 216 | 425 |
| 23 | Hindall (Floyd) | — | 184 | 1,054 |
| 24 | King (Paul) Well Drilling | — | 121 | 785 |
| 25 | Ellsworth (Sam) | — | 107 | 714 |
| 26 | Harpest Well Drilling | — | 59 | 781 |
| 27 | King (Eldon E) | — | 52 | 443 |
| 28 | Tracy (Hershel) | — | 44 | 197 |
| 29 | Harpest (Ron) Well Drilling | — | 36 | 377 |
| 30 | Clevenger Well Drilling | — | 31 | 237 |
| 31 | Steinman Water Well Drilling | — | 29 | 523 |
| 32 | King (S G) & Son | — | 28 | 163 |
| 33 | King Well Drilling | — | 26 | 103 |
| 34 | Tom Byrne Well Drilling | — | 23 | 1,057 |
| 35 | Huwer Drilling | — | 13 | 371 |
| 36 | Lotts (A E) & Son | — | 11 | 665 |
| 37 | Cole (Donald) | — | 11 | 200 |
| 38 | Bushong (Richard L) | — | 8 | 215 |
| 39 | Northwest Ohio Well Drilling | — | 8 | 42 |
| 40 | Mount Water Well Drilling | — | 7 | 3,547 |
| 41 | Green (Amel F) | — | 7 | 999 |
| 42 | Waldron Well Drilling | — | 7 | 402 |
| 43 | Myers (Russell E) | — | 7 | 37 |
| 44 | Mark Stoepfel Drilling | — | 6 | 1,000 |
| 45 | Union County Drilling | — | 6 | 663 |
| 46 | Sherman (Glen A) | — | 6 | 422 |
| 47 | Lotts Well Drilling | — | 6 | 286 |
| 48 | Shaffer (Glen) | — | 6 | 256 |
| 49 | Had Inc. | — | 5 | 783 |
| 50 | Mckee Well Drilling | — | 5 | 25 |
| 51 | Wiley Well Drilling Inc. | — | 4 | 6,637 |
| 52 | Tom Myers Well Drilling | — | 4 | 47 |
| 53 | Bapst Inc. | — | 3 | 5,348 |
| 54 | Stoepfel Drilling LLC | — | 3 | 2,504 |
| 55 | Arthur's Well Drilling | — | 3 | 552 |
| 56 | Messenger (Carl) | — | 3 | 248 |
| 57 | Cray (Lowell) | — | 3 | 69 |
| 58 | Beinhower Bros Drilling Co. | — | 2 | 3,766 |
| 59 | Jackson & Sons Drilling & Pump Co. | — | 2 | 3,154 |
| 60 | Complete Well Service | — | 2 | 362 |
| 61 | Bushong (Charles Burton) | — | 2 | 295 |
| 62 | Magness (O P) Drilling | — | 2 | 278 |
| 63 | G M Baker & Son | — | 2 | 259 |
| 64 | Baldwin Qualified Well Drilling | — | 2 | 176 |
| 65 | Dunbar Drilling Co. | — | 2 | 85 |
| 66 | Dunbar-Stark-Layne Drilling | — | 2 | 83 |
| 67 | Mccallister Drilling | — | 2 | 48 |
| 68 | Bill's Bit Service | — | 2 | 47 |
| 69 | Harper (W H) | — | 2 | 27 |
| 70 | Jamison Well Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 11,219 |
| 71 | Crabtree Drilling | — | 1 | 4,742 |
| 72 | Curry Drilling LLC | — | 1 | 1,320 |
| 73 | E R Eppinger Drilling | — | 1 | 206 |
| 74 | Wilson (Jim) Well Drilling | — | 1 | 1,464 |
| 75 | Jenei Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 1 | 1,390 |
| 76 | Glaser Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 730 |
| 77 | Dorsey (Walter R) | — | 1 | 511 |
| 78 | Layne Ohio (Layne Christensen) | — | 1 | 346 |
| 79 | Phillips Well Drilling | — | 1 | 338 |
| 80 | Pittman (Ray O) | — | 1 | 239 |
| 81 | Jackson (C W) & Sons Inc. | — | 1 | 201 |
| 82 | Water Systems Inc. | — | 1 | 196 |
| 83 | Long (T D) Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 189 |
| 84 | Green's Well Drilling & Water Svc | — | 1 | 149 |
| 85 | Boes Well Drilling LLC | — | 1 | 142 |
| 86 | Kuck (H J) | — | 1 | 107 |
| 87 | Lehman & Swartz | — | 1 | 70 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Hardin County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full ODNR
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 Hardin County?
G H Bierly Inc. has drilled the most Hardin County wells in the recent record — 204 since 2016, 829 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Hardin County?
87 companies in the ODNR record have drilled wells in Hardin County; 29 of them have drilled somewhere in Ohio since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
How deep is a typical well in Hardin County?
The median drilled depth in Hardin County is 90 ft, based on 3,166 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Hardin County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Hardin County wells page.
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