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Best well drillers in Lawrence County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 35 drilling companies with wells on record in Lawrence County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,130 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.

35companies on record
3active since 2022
1,130wells in county record
#CompanyIn Lawrence Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Hacker, Tim 22 117 388
2 Speth, James 20 461 1,212
3 Scates, Stephen T. 6 7 75
4 Stinson, Larry 4 4 73
5 Jones, Gerald K. 1 26 393
6 Scates, Thomas L. 1 4 245
7 Hacker, Delbert — 111 646
8 Hacker, Marvin — 76 227
9 Speth, David A. — 71 241
10 Speth, David — 54 228
11 Sloan, Thomas F. — 28 463
12 Potts, Paul W. — 23 42
13 Abbott, Albert — 21 344
14 Erwin, Harold E. — 16 559
15 Tim Hacker — 16 37
16 Gibbs Well Drilling — 13 147
17 Jones, Gerald B. — 12 315
18 Lowry, John H. — 12 121
19 Hayes & Sims Drlg — 8 60
20 Potts Brothers — 8 37
21 Klein, Paul Steve — 7 31
22 Kohnen, Clarence — 6 13,419
23 Hayes & Sims — 6 124
24 Grosch, Wayne A. — 4 545
25 Van Gilder, Richard E. — 4 136
26 Mckinney, Ted — 3 313
27 Miller, Claude W. — 3 208
28 Layne-Western Co. — 2 1,635
29 Baker, Earl Jr. — 1 1,933
30 Baker, E. C. & Sons — 1 255
31 Grosch Irrigation — 1 185
32 Layne & Western Co. — 1 114
33 Bartmess, John B. — 1 51
34 Gobel, Joseph Louis — 1 47
35 Whiston, George N. — 1 29

Ranked by wells drilled in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County?

Hacker, Tim has drilled the most Lawrence County wells in the recent record — 22 since 2016, 117 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Lawrence County?

35 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Lawrence County; 3 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 Lawrence County?

The median drilled depth in Lawrence County is 99 ft, based on 1,311 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Lawrence County wells page.

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

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