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Best well drillers in Shelby County, Ohio
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 73 drilling companies with wells
on record in Shelby County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 4,651 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.
73companies on record
22active since 2022
4,651wells in county record
| # | Company | In Shelby Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Quinter Well Drilling LLC | 540 | 3,100 | 12,078 |
| 2 | Kniceley Well Drilling | 47 | 109 | 3,389 |
| 3 | Wiley Well Drilling Inc. | 17 | 160 | 6,637 |
| 4 | Eaton Well Drilling Inc. | 9 | 15 | 1,309 |
| 5 | Crabtree Drilling | 7 | 10 | 4,742 |
| 6 | Seismic Drilling Co. Inc. | 4 | 5 | 5,783 |
| 7 | G H Bierly Inc. | 4 | 5 | 4,064 |
| 8 | Hamilton & Sons Well Drilling | 3 | 5 | 3,862 |
| 9 | Layne Christensen Co. | 3 | 3 | 33 |
| 10 | Sever Water Well Drilling | 2 | 50 | 4,250 |
| 11 | Jamison Well Drilling Inc. | 1 | 3 | 11,219 |
| 12 | Adkins Well Drilling | 1 | 2 | 143 |
| 13 | Eaton (Donald) | — | 211 | 1,019 |
| 14 | Bulcher (Willard) | — | 119 | 270 |
| 15 | Eaton Well & Pump | — | 110 | 3,329 |
| 16 | Fisher (John J) | — | 80 | 216 |
| 17 | Hole & Middlebrook | — | 71 | 403 |
| 18 | Middlebrook (T A) | — | 53 | 125 |
| 19 | Lynch (Theodore) | — | 49 | 599 |
| 20 | Grimm (Barnett) | — | 49 | 335 |
| 21 | Dorsey (Walter R) | — | 47 | 511 |
| 22 | Huwer Drilling | — | 43 | 371 |
| 23 | Jackson (C W) & Sons Inc. | — | 40 | 201 |
| 24 | Miami Well Service | — | 29 | 58 |
| 25 | Johnson Well Drilling | — | 28 | 433 |
| 26 | Odnr (Water) | — | 27 | 185 |
| 27 | Hamilton (H S) & Sons | — | 26 | 346 |
| 28 | Bushong (Richard L) | — | 22 | 215 |
| 29 | Zimmerman (ED L) | — | 21 | 85 |
| 30 | Bergman Well Drilling | — | 17 | 48 |
| 31 | Harpest Well Drilling | — | 13 | 781 |
| 32 | Area Wide Drilling & Pump Service | — | 12 | 328 |
| 33 | Kuck (H J) | — | 12 | 107 |
| 34 | R & C Drilling Co. | — | 12 | 34 |
| 35 | Tester Well Drilling | — | 11 | 68 |
| 36 | Union County Drilling | — | 7 | 663 |
| 37 | Glaser Water Service | — | 6 | 948 |
| 38 | Jackson & Sons Drilling & Pump Co. | — | 5 | 3,154 |
| 39 | Bushong (Charles Burton) | — | 5 | 295 |
| 40 | Moody's OF Dayton Inc. | — | 4 | 361 |
| 41 | Stephens (J W) | — | 4 | 364 |
| 42 | Allen Water Well Drilling | — | 4 | 96 |
| 43 | Natures Energies Drilling | — | 4 | 50 |
| 44 | Davis Drilling | — | 3 | 415 |
| 45 | Harpest (Ron) Well Drilling | — | 3 | 377 |
| 46 | Hall And Jenkins Well Drilling | — | 2 | 968 |
| 47 | Ortman Drilling Inc. | — | 2 | 26 |
| 48 | Tom Byrne Well Drilling | — | 2 | 1,057 |
| 49 | Wes Britenstine Well Drilling | — | 2 | 786 |
| 50 | Snell Well Drilling & Pumps | — | 2 | 688 |
| 51 | Stoltz Well Drilling | — | 2 | 685 |
| 52 | Smith & Sons | — | 2 | 448 |
| 53 | Lotts Well Drilling | — | 2 | 286 |
| 54 | Reynolds Inc. | — | 2 | 186 |
| 55 | Bapst Inc. | — | 1 | 5,348 |
| 56 | Bushong Drilling | — | 1 | 852 |
| 57 | Griffith Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 854 |
| 58 | Boone Water Systems Inc. | — | 1 | 740 |
| 59 | Williams (Nick) Drilling | — | 1 | 320 |
| 60 | Jenei Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 1 | 1,390 |
| 61 | Sprowls Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 1,348 |
| 62 | Lotts (A E) & Son | — | 1 | 665 |
| 63 | Barnes & Sons | — | 1 | 446 |
| 64 | Layne Ohio (Layne Christensen) | — | 1 | 346 |
| 65 | Phillips Well Drilling | — | 1 | 338 |
| 66 | Stoltz (H L) & Son | — | 1 | 261 |
| 67 | Heckman (Ray) | — | 1 | 241 |
| 68 | Crist Well Service | — | 1 | 200 |
| 69 | Dawson Drilling | — | 1 | 135 |
| 70 | Harpest (Don E) | — | 1 | 109 |
| 71 | Ohio Rotary Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 1 | 66 |
| 72 | Roe (Donald J) | — | 1 | 47 |
| 73 | Hamilton (G W) | — | 1 | 40 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Shelby 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 Shelby County?
Quinter Well Drilling LLC has drilled the most Shelby County wells in the recent record — 540 since 2016, 3,100 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Shelby County?
73 companies in the ODNR record have drilled wells in Shelby 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 Shelby County?
The median drilled depth in Shelby County is 113 ft, based on 4,906 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Shelby County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Shelby County wells page.
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