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Best well drillers in Effingham County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 42 drilling companies with wells on record in Effingham County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,343 logged wells in the Illinois State Geological Survey water well records (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to the public record.

42companies on record
4active since 2022
2,343wells in county record
#CompanyIn Effingham Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Haake, Ralph 9 31 903
2 Baker, J. Curtis 5 8 59
3 Skinner, Todd 3 3 572
4 Kohnen, Clarence 2 1,306 13,419
5 Courson, Roger — 599 1,463
6 Baker, Earl Jr. — 69 1,933
7 Courson, Richard C. — 48 144
8 Charles Hollinshead — 31 224
9 Ready, Dale — 30 42
10 Woodward, Lawrence — 29 421
11 Beckett, Donald — 24 911
12 Jacobs, Ray E. — 19 222
13 Fleming, Daniel D. — 16 149
14 Hollinshead, Charles — 13 185
15 Baum, Arron — 12 270
16 Sloan, Thomas F. — 10 463
17 Arron Baum — 8 302
18 Fleming, D. D. — 8 122
19 Fleming, Rodney K. — 7 317
20 Baker, E. C. & Sons — 7 255
21 Green, William Ernest — 7 38
22 Walters, Steven — 6 1,494
23 Jones, Gerald B. — 6 315
24 Hacker, Delbert — 5 646
25 Link, Harold F. — 4 1,395
26 Beasley, Eugene B. — 4 1,135
27 Baker, Donald K. — 4 91
28 Woodward, Larry A. — 4 62
29 Reynolds, Joseph R. — 3 2,516
30 Luttrell, Gerald Dean — 3 553
31 Kohnen, Clarence E. — 3 172
32 Pittman, Robert Dale — 3 94
33 Wilson, Deneal — 2 646
34 Jones, Gerald K. — 2 393
35 Randy Gebke — 2 68
36 Gebke, Randy — 1 97
37 Reynolds Well Drilling — 1 1,867
38 Wiesenhofer, Andrew — 1 1,489
39 NO Company — 1 564
40 Abbott, Albert — 1 344
41 Puckett, Arnold — 1 60
42 Tegeler, Brian J. — 1 27

Ranked by wells drilled in Effingham County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full ISGS 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 Effingham County?

Haake, Ralph has drilled the most Effingham County wells in the recent record — 9 since 2016, 31 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Effingham County?

42 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Effingham County; 4 of them have drilled somewhere in Illinois since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Effingham County?

The median drilled depth in Effingham County is 46 ft, based on 2,812 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Effingham County wells page.

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

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