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Best well drillers in Vinton County, Ohio
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 57 drilling companies with wells
on record in Vinton County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,650 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.
57companies on record
10active since 2022
1,650wells in county record
| # | Company | In Vinton Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
| 1 | Smith's Well Drilling LLC | 211 | 796 | 1,966 |
| 2 | Dean's Drilling | 43 | 82 | 1,010 |
| 3 | Warthman Drilling Inc. | 42 | 90 | 4,411 |
| 4 | Bapst Inc. | 3 | 8 | 5,348 |
| 5 | J Miller & Sons Drilling | 2 | 2 | 1,124 |
| 6 | J E Wright Well Drilling | 1 | 1 | 1,126 |
| 7 | Ellis & Morris Drilling Co. | — | 195 | 539 |
| 8 | Kessler (L H) Well Drilling | — | 142 | 215 |
| 9 | Gillum Well Drilling | — | 74 | 625 |
| 10 | Gobel Well Drilling | — | 36 | 1,184 |
| 11 | R & J Well Drilling | — | 19 | 101 |
| 12 | Wright (Larry) Drilling | — | 18 | 293 |
| 13 | Turner (George L) | — | 18 | 184 |
| 14 | Coffey Well Drilling | — | 17 | 124 |
| 15 | Smith (R) Water Well Drilling | — | 15 | 190 |
| 16 | Shamrock Drilling | — | 10 | 315 |
| 17 | Hart's Water Well Drilling | — | 10 | 118 |
| 18 | Bryan (Derral F) | — | 10 | 44 |
| 19 | Ramsey Drilling | — | 9 | 614 |
| 20 | Peck (Carl) Well Drilling | — | 9 | 412 |
| 21 | Agua Well Drilling Inc. | — | 7 | 449 |
| 22 | Accurate Well Drilling | — | 6 | 111 |
| 23 | Lowery (Harold R) | — | 6 | 77 |
| 24 | Bethel Water Well Drill | — | 5 | 762 |
| 25 | R & J Well Drilling (Randy) | — | 5 | 94 |
| 26 | Mcdaniel Well Drilling | — | 5 | 35 |
| 27 | Ross Water Well Drilling | — | 4 | 544 |
| 28 | Notestine Drilling | — | 4 | 70 |
| 29 | Morrison (R G) | — | 4 | 59 |
| 30 | Paul W Wright Drilling | — | 3 | 1,236 |
| 31 | Buckeye Valley Well Drilling | — | 3 | 721 |
| 32 | Vickroy Well Drilling | — | 3 | 260 |
| 33 | Halls Well Drilling | — | 3 | 149 |
| 34 | Scott A Welch Water Well Drilling | — | 3 | 85 |
| 35 | Barrett Well Drilling | — | 2 | 881 |
| 36 | Poling Drilling | — | 2 | 485 |
| 37 | Wright Well Drilling | — | 2 | 366 |
| 38 | Rupert & Sons Drilling | — | 2 | 313 |
| 39 | Stone (Roy) | — | 2 | 32 |
| 40 | Keen Well And Pump | — | 1 | 10,231 |
| 41 | Yeager Well Drilling & Pumps | — | 1 | 1,388 |
| 42 | Havens & Sons Drilling | — | 1 | 516 |
| 43 | Treadway (V L) | — | 1 | 462 |
| 44 | Smith & Sons | — | 1 | 448 |
| 45 | Sheets Machinery | — | 1 | 381 |
| 46 | Short Brothers | — | 1 | 374 |
| 47 | Poole's Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 293 |
| 48 | G M Baker & Son | — | 1 | 259 |
| 49 | Forshey (Joseph) | — | 1 | 239 |
| 50 | Hall's Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 234 |
| 51 | Estep Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 181 |
| 52 | Michel Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 141 |
| 53 | Parsons (Lovell M) | — | 1 | 118 |
| 54 | Reinschell (Lowell) Drilling | — | 1 | 66 |
| 55 | Gillum Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 46 |
| 56 | Wagner (Herbert W) & Son | — | 1 | 33 |
| 57 | F & S Well Drilling | — | 1 | 25 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Vinton 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 Vinton County?
Smith's Well Drilling LLC has drilled the most Vinton County wells in the recent record — 211 since 2016, 796 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Vinton County?
57 companies in the ODNR record have drilled wells in Vinton County; 10 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 Vinton County?
The median drilled depth in Vinton County is 260 ft, based on 1,733 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Vinton County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Vinton County wells page.
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