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Best well drillers in Wayne County, Illinois

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 40 drilling companies with wells on record in Wayne County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,170 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
5active since 2022
1,170wells in county record
#CompanyIn Wayne Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Hacker, Tim 5 10 388
2 Haake, Ralph 5 5 903
3 Durbin, Dominique 4 4 109
4 Jones, Gerald K. 2 14 393
5 Greg A. Evans 2 2 115
6 Wilson, Deneal 1 365 646
7 Beckett, Donald 1 2 911
8 Scates, Stephen T. 1 1 75
9 Durbin, Kandra M. 1 1 149
10 Stinson, Larry 1 1 73
11 Wilson, Olen L. — 437 801
12 Puckett, Arnold L. — 102 186
13 Speth, James — 48 1,212
14 Pittman, Robert Dale — 28 94
15 Kohnen, Clarence — 27 13,419
16 Puckett, Arnold — 23 60
17 Pittman, Dale — 23 38
18 Abbott, Albert — 12 344
19 Abbott, Albert G. — 10 162
20 Sloan, Thomas F. — 9 463
21 Duke, Albert — 9 74
22 Texaco, Inc. — 5 27
23 Woodward, Lawrence — 4 421
24 Courson, Roger — 3 1,463
25 Baker, E. C. & Sons — 3 255
26 Sutton, Kellie R. — 3 49
27 Hacker, Delbert — 2 646
28 Mckinney, Ted — 2 313
29 Speth, David — 2 228
30 Keen, George — 2 177
31 Lamp, Robert Wayne — 2 141
32 Baker, Earl Jr. — 1 1,933
33 Geer, James A. — 1 498
34 Jones, Gerald B. — 1 315
35 Larkin Drilling Company — 1 65
36 Fleming, Roy — 1 61
37 Turner, Martin — 1 48
38 IL State Water Survey — 1 33
39 Woodward, Lawrence F. — 1 28
40 Shell Oil Company — 1 25

Ranked by wells drilled in Wayne 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 Wayne County?

Hacker, Tim has drilled the most Wayne County wells in the recent record — 5 since 2016, 10 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Wayne County?

40 companies in the ISGS record have drilled wells in Wayne County; 5 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 Wayne County?

The median drilled depth in Wayne County is 120 ft, based on 1,353 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Wayne County wells page.

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

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