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Best well drillers in Richland County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 40 drilling companies with wells on record in Richland County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,598 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.

40companies on record
4active since 2022
1,598wells in county record
#CompanyIn Richland Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Hacker, Tim 14 34 388
2 Jones, Gerald K. 13 262 393
3 Sloan, Thomas F. 7 175 463
4 Greg A. Evans 1 1 115
5 Kohnen, Clarence — 250 13,419
6 Speth, James — 179 1,212
7 Abbott, Albert — 178 344
8 Jones, Gerald B. — 156 315
9 Abbott, Albert G. — 112 162
10 Lowry, John H. — 100 121
11 Wilson, Deneal — 27 646
12 Speth, David — 26 228
13 Hacker, Delbert — 21 646
14 Speth, David A. — 11 241
15 Wilson, Olen L. — 9 801
16 Layne-Western Co. — 8 1,635
17 Kohnen, Clarence E. — 6 172
18 Baker, Earl Jr. — 5 1,933
19 Tim Hacker — 4 37
20 Whiston, George Jr. — 4 32
21 Courson, Roger — 3 1,463
22 Baker, E. C. & Sons — 3 255
23 Hacker, Marvin — 3 227
24 Potts, Paul W. — 3 42
25 Miller, Claude W. — 2 208
26 Green, William Ernest — 2 38
27 Haake, Ralph — 1 903
28 Hemmen, Jake — 1 27
29 Beckett, Donald — 1 911
30 NO Company — 1 564
31 Arron Baum — 1 302
32 Charles Hollinshead — 1 224
33 Hollinshead, Charles — 1 185
34 Pittman, Robert Dale — 1 94
35 Duke, Albert — 1 74
36 Larkin Drilling Company — 1 65
37 Bartmess, John B. — 1 51
38 Pittman, Dale — 1 38
39 IL State Water Survey — 1 33
40 Texaco, Inc. — 1 27

Ranked by wells drilled in Richland 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 Richland County?

Hacker, Tim has drilled the most Richland County wells in the recent record — 14 since 2016, 34 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Richland County?

40 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Richland 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 Richland County?

The median drilled depth in Richland County is 180 ft, based on 1,710 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Richland County wells page.

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

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