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Best well drillers in Ross County, Ohio

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 112 drilling companies with wells on record in Ross County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 3,213 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.

112companies on record
22active since 2022
3,213wells in county record
#CompanyIn Ross Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Havens & Sons Drilling 25 228 516
2 Bapst Inc. 25 62 5,348
3 Smith's Well Drilling LLC 9 46 1,966
4 Gregory Drilling LLC 3 3 82
5 Taylor Well Drilling 3 3 43
6 J E Wright Well Drilling 2 34 1,126
7 Warthman Drilling Inc. 2 5 4,411
8 Layne Christensen Co. 2 4 33
9 Hamilton & Sons Well Drilling 2 2 3,862
10 Walter's Well Drilling 1 177 1,507
11 Beinhower Bros Drilling Co. 1 2 3,766
12 Moody's OF Dayton Inc. 1 2 361
13 Seismic Drilling Co. Inc. 1 1 5,783
14 Eaton Well Drilling Inc. 1 1 1,309
15 National Water Services (Lanc) 1 1 91
16 Bethel Water Well Drill — 695 762
17 Gillum Well Drilling — 470 625
18 Brown's Well Drilling — 183 205
19 Chenoweth Well Drilling — 153 610
20 Estep Water Well Drilling — 144 181
21 Gobel Well Drilling — 93 1,184
22 Trefz (Rodney H) — 78 310
23 Coffey Well Drilling — 77 124
24 R & J Well Drilling (Randy) — 61 94
25 R & J Well Drilling — 58 101
26 Humphrey Well Drilling — 49 430
27 Shorts (John) Well Drilling — 46 927
28 Bethel (James) — 46 48
29 Buckeye Valley Well Drilling — 41 721
30 Edwards Drilling & Excavating — 25 43
31 Gillum Water Well Drilling — 23 46
32 Quinter Well Drilling LLC — 21 12,078
33 Smith (R) Water Well Drilling — 21 190
34 Trefz Well Drilling — 18 245
35 Whitesed (D L) & Son Drilling — 15 145
36 Garrison Well Drilling — 14 640
37 Had Inc. — 12 783
38 Gillespie & Son — 12 750
39 Smith & Sons — 11 448
40 Reynolds Inc. — 11 186
41 Noggle (Harley) — 11 186
42 Bryan (Derral F) — 11 44
43 Christy (Joe) — 10 692
44 H E Johnson Well Drilling — 9 270
45 Scott Well Drilling — 9 187
46 Mathews Well Drilling — 9 38
47 Gobel (Roger L) — 9 35
48 Paul W Wright Drilling — 8 1,236
49 Agua Well Drilling Inc. — 8 449
50 Frazier Drilling — 8 376
51 Layne Ohio (Layne Christensen) — 8 346
52 Vernon Gregory Well Drilling — 7 1,201
53 Professional Water Well Systems — 7 624
54 Mccoy Well Drilling Service — 7 253
55 Moody & Associates Inc. — 7 33
56 Ellis & Morris Drilling Co. — 6 539
57 Brown Drilling — 6 152
58 R C Barry Company — 5 3,818
59 Turner (George L) — 5 184
60 Mccarty Well Drilling — 5 175
61 Accurate Well Drilling — 5 111
62 Spung's Well Drilling — 5 80
63 Notestone Well Drilling — 5 62
64 Sater Well Drilling — 5 33
65 Robert E Smith Drilling — 4 2,483
66 Peck (Carl) Well Drilling — 4 412
67 Peacock Well Drilling — 4 265
68 G M Baker & Son — 4 259
69 Rice Sid Well Drilling — 4 95
70 Sprowls Drilling Co. — 3 1,348
71 Wright (Merle) Well Drilling — 3 1,044
72 Conner Well Drilling — 3 460
73 Vickroy Well Drilling — 3 260
74 Kessler (L H) Well Drilling — 3 215
75 Garnes Water Wells — 3 213
76 Assure Well Drilling — 3 208
77 Odnr (Water) — 3 185
78 Lowery (Harold R) — 3 77
79 Stage Inc. (Dba R C Barry) — 2 1,117
80 Barry (R C) — 2 1,392
81 Ruby (Stan) Well Drilling — 2 750
82 Edmonds Water Well Drilling — 2 308
83 Baumgartner (Frank) — 2 241
84 Sherman (Hobart) — 2 193
85 C & P Well Drilling — 2 151
86 Parsons (Lovell M) — 2 118
87 F & S Well Drilling — 2 25
88 Crabtree Drilling — 1 4,742
89 Dean's Drilling — 1 1,010
90 Riddle Well Drilling — 1 682
91 Eaton (Donald) — 1 1,019
92 Cooley's Water Well Drilling — 1 796
93 Johnson Well Drilling — 1 433
94 Wright Well Drilling — 1 366
95 Hamilton (H S) & Sons — 1 346
96 May (H J) — 1 338
97 Casey's Well Drilling — 1 312
98 Lewis (Sam) Well Drilling — 1 310
99 Plains Drilling Co. — 1 179
100 Mike Herr Well & Pump — 1 179
101 Halls Well Drilling — 1 149
102 Miller (John) Well Drilling — 1 121
103 Tackett (Chester) — 1 74
104 Barker Well Drilling — 1 73
105 Notestine Drilling — 1 70
106 Shorts (Wayne) Well Drilling — 1 54
107 Thompson (George A) — 1 41
108 Johnston (H A) — 1 41
109 Hamm (Everett G) — 1 33
110 Wagner (Herbert W) & Son — 1 33
111 J D Short Well Drilling — 1 30
112 Aqua Spring Well Drilling — 1 28

Ranked by wells drilled in Ross 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 Ross County?

Havens & Sons Drilling has drilled the most Ross County wells in the recent record — 25 since 2016, 228 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Ross County?

112 companies in the ODNR record have drilled wells in Ross County; 22 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 Ross County?

The median drilled depth in Ross County is 76 ft, based on 3,560 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Ross County wells page.

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

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