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Best well drillers in Preble County, Ohio

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 107 drilling companies with wells on record in Preble County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 4,287 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.

107companies on record
19active since 2022
4,287wells in county record
#CompanyIn Preble Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Wiley Well Drilling Inc. 266 1,267 6,637
2 Yeager Well Drilling & Pumps 31 84 1,388
3 Riddle Well Drilling 23 59 682
4 L M Kettler Inc. 16 32 38
5 Quinter Well Drilling LLC 13 42 12,078
6 Minnix Water Systems Inc. 8 130 295
7 Crabtree Drilling 8 11 4,742
8 Hall And Jenkins Well Drilling 4 34 968
9 Hamilton & Sons Well Drilling 4 11 3,862
10 Davis Drilling 4 6 415
11 Moody's OF Dayton Inc. 2 9 361
12 Eaton Well Drilling Inc. 2 2 1,309
13 Wilson (Jim) Well Drilling — 826 1,464
14 Paxton (Howard) — 239 251
15 Bach Brothers Drilling Co. — 181 288
16 Smith & Sons — 147 448
17 Flory (J Arthur) — 140 145
18 Chas Hoover Well Drilling — 104 180
19 Barnes & Sons — 90 446
20 Gilbert Well Drilling — 78 668
21 Wilson Plbg Htg & Cooling — 66 145
22 Treadway (William) Well Drilling — 57 640
23 Phillips Well Drilling — 52 338
24 Hofacker (Roy) — 47 814
25 Treadway (V L) — 45 462
26 Garrison (Clay P) — 33 1,192
27 Barnes (D C) — 30 138
28 Smith (James H) & Sons — 30 54
29 Bromwell Water Well Drilling — 30 54
30 Witters (Ozro) — 28 29
31 Anderson (Sterling) — 26 102
32 Coppock (Ralph) — 22 236
33 Mccullough (Gilbert) — 21 129
34 Fraley Well Drilling — 20 362
35 Thrush Well Drilling — 18 37
36 Applegate (Glenn C) — 14 235
37 Snell Well Drilling & Pumps — 13 688
38 Area Wide Drilling & Pump Service — 12 328
39 Garrison Well Drilling — 11 640
40 Scott Well & Pump Co. — 10 604
41 Bates Water Well Drilling — 10 327
42 Stoltz (H L) & Son — 10 261
43 Crist Well Service — 10 200
44 Glaser Water Service — 9 948
45 Dull (Ira C) — 9 154
46 Vanderpool (Herbert) — 8 272
47 Wiley Drilling Co. — 8 60
48 Hoover (J B) — 7 375
49 Layne Ohio (Layne Christensen) — 7 346
50 G M Baker & Son — 7 259
51 Boone Water Systems Inc. — 6 740
52 Shank (M C) — 6 259
53 Patterson (S C) Drilling — 6 208
54 Barrett Well Drilling — 5 881
55 Taggart Pump Repair & Well Drlg — 5 63
56 Fredebaugh Well Drilling — 4 5,477
57 Crane Well Drilling — 4 695
58 Reynolds Inc. — 4 186
59 Miller (Floyd) Well Drilling — 4 126
60 Scott A Welch Water Well Drilling — 4 85
61 Tincher (Hugh) Well Drilling — 4 83
62 Estes & Estes Well Drilling — 4 28
63 Phillips Drilling Co. — 3 141
64 Stoltz Well Drilling — 3 685
65 Hoover Water Systems — 3 143
66 Earl Hollandsworth Inc. — 3 136
67 Williams (D S) — 3 97
68 Miller (O E) — 3 57
69 Natures Energies Drilling — 3 50
70 Mount Water Well Drilling — 2 3,547
71 Ingle (Donn) — 2 778
72 Lotts (A E) & Son — 2 665
73 Kinser Well Drilling — 2 321
74 W U Scott Drilling — 2 278
75 Scott Well Drilling — 2 187
76 Odnr (Water) — 2 185
77 Brenner Well Drilling — 2 178
78 Tucker (D C) — 2 117
79 Birch (M E) — 2 77
80 Walter's Well Drilling — 1 1,507
81 Kimball Well Drilling — 1 2,594
82 Ortman Drilling Inc. — 1 26
83 Sprowls Drilling Co. — 1 1,348
84 Slanker Well Drilling — 1 794
85 Ruby (Stan) Well Drilling — 1 750
86 Smith Drilling Contractors — 1 609
87 Arthur's Well Drilling — 1 552
88 Kellenbarger & Sons Drilling — 1 412
89 Swingle (Donald) Well Drilling — 1 364
90 Hamilton (H S) & Sons — 1 346
91 A-1 Water Service — 1 252
92 Day Drilling Co. — 1 239
93 Anders Drilling — 1 219
94 Asher (A J) — 1 207
95 Adkins Well Drilling — 1 143
96 Agnew (Marshall) — 1 127
97 Miller (Clay E) — 1 122
98 Patterson Drilling — 1 92
99 Reynolds (B A) — 1 88
100 Wilson (Ricky) Drilling — 1 62
101 Aaa Well Drilling — 1 62
102 Miller Drilling — 1 59
103 Elmer Rowe Drilling — 1 55
104 Wogoman (H A) — 1 43
105 Mcconnell Well Drilling — 1 38
106 Moody & Associates Inc. — 1 33
107 Aqua Spring Well Drilling — 1 28

Ranked by wells drilled in Preble 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 Preble County?

Wiley Well Drilling Inc. has drilled the most Preble County wells in the recent record — 266 since 2016, 1,267 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Preble County?

107 companies in the ODNR record have drilled wells in Preble County; 19 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 Preble County?

The median drilled depth in Preble County is 80 ft, based on 4,457 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Preble County wells page.

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

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