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Best well drillers in Shelby County, Illinois
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 57 drilling companies with wells
on record in Shelby County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,528 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.
57companies on record
9active since 2022
2,528wells in county record
| # | Company | In Shelby Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Haake, Ralph | 12 | 39 | 903 |
| 2 | Skinner, Todd | 11 | 52 | 572 |
| 3 | S & J Well Drilling | 9 | 23 | 511 |
| 4 | Parrott, Cody | 2 | 2 | 174 |
| 5 | Baker, J. Curtis | 1 | 14 | 59 |
| 6 | Gebke, Randy | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| 7 | Will County Well & Pump | 1 | 1 | 832 |
| 8 | Erwin, James R. | 1 | 1 | 38 |
| 9 | Baker, Earl Jr. | — | 551 | 1,933 |
| 10 | Walters, Steven | — | 368 | 1,494 |
| 11 | Kohnen, Clarence | — | 290 | 13,419 |
| 12 | Link, Harold F. | — | 249 | 1,395 |
| 13 | Beasley, Eugene B. | — | 214 | 1,135 |
| 14 | Courson, Roger | — | 112 | 1,463 |
| 15 | Jacobs, Ray E. | — | 90 | 222 |
| 16 | Fleming, Rodney K. | — | 59 | 317 |
| 17 | Charles Hollinshead | — | 50 | 224 |
| 18 | Hollinshead, Charles | — | 41 | 185 |
| 19 | Luttrell, Gerald Dean | — | 40 | 553 |
| 20 | Luttrell, James | — | 36 | 459 |
| 21 | Baker, Donald K. | — | 24 | 91 |
| 22 | Baum, Arron | — | 19 | 270 |
| 23 | Reynolds Well Drilling | — | 18 | 1,867 |
| 24 | Sloan, Thomas F. | — | 18 | 463 |
| 25 | Wiesenhofer, Andrew | — | 17 | 1,489 |
| 26 | Layne-Western Co. | — | 16 | 1,635 |
| 27 | NO Company | — | 16 | 564 |
| 28 | Beckett, Donald | — | 15 | 911 |
| 29 | Reynolds, Joseph R. | — | 14 | 2,516 |
| 30 | Arron Baum | — | 12 | 302 |
| 31 | Baker, Donald | — | 12 | 135 |
| 32 | Woodward, Larry A. | — | 12 | 62 |
| 33 | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. | — | 11 | 123 |
| 34 | Baker, E. C. & Sons | — | 10 | 255 |
| 35 | Ruester, John T. | — | 8 | 179 |
| 36 | Mashburn, Robert | — | 7 | 1,076 |
| 37 | Fleming, Daniel D. | — | 7 | 149 |
| 38 | Fleming, D. D. | — | 7 | 122 |
| 39 | Luttrel, James | — | 7 | 56 |
| 40 | Gaza, John Edward | — | 5 | 102 |
| 41 | Ryan, John H. | — | 5 | 116 |
| 42 | Woodward, Lawrence | — | 4 | 421 |
| 43 | Mashburn, Grover C. Jr. | — | 4 | 338 |
| 44 | Rimbey, Brian | — | 4 | 201 |
| 45 | Fleming, Roy | — | 3 | 61 |
| 46 | Tegeler, Brian J. | — | 3 | 27 |
| 47 | Courson, Richard C. | — | 2 | 144 |
| 48 | Erwin, James | — | 2 | 101 |
| 49 | Sims, Ronald M. Jr. | — | 2 | 95 |
| 50 | Randy Gebke | — | 2 | 68 |
| 51 | Balding, Shane | — | 2 | 60 |
| 52 | Green, William E. | — | 2 | 38 |
| 53 | Hacker, Delbert | — | 1 | 646 |
| 54 | Sims, Ronald M. Sr. | — | 1 | 602 |
| 55 | Vaughn, Kenneth G. | — | 1 | 503 |
| 56 | Mashburn Brothers | — | 1 | 65 |
| 57 | Hanks, T. R. | — | 1 | 38 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Shelby 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 Shelby County?
Haake, Ralph has drilled the most Shelby County wells in the recent record — 12 since 2016, 39 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Shelby County?
57 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Shelby County; 9 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 Shelby County?
The median drilled depth in Shelby County is 44 ft, based on 2,910 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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