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Best well drillers in Gilpin County, Colorado
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 48 drilling companies with wells
on record in Gilpin County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,985 logged
wells in the Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR) well permit database (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to
the public record.
48companies on record
11active since 2022
2,985wells in county record
| # | Company | In Gilpin Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | C. R. Smith Drilling | 182 | 1,483 | 2,039 |
| 2 | James Drilling Company | 101 | 332 | 6,736 |
| 3 | Ingram Drilling Inc. | 6 | 33 | 5,076 |
| 4 | Arrow Drilling | 5 | 107 | 2,709 |
| 5 | Living Water Systems Inc. | 2 | 27 | 3,572 |
| 6 | Ground Water Systems Inc. | — | 411 | 3,481 |
| 7 | Norris & Sons | — | 176 | 1,573 |
| 8 | James Storm | — | 126 | 1,117 |
| 9 | Aspen Drilling Company Inc. | — | 43 | 2,648 |
| 10 | Virginia Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 33 | 2,167 |
| 11 | Ground Exploration LLC | — | 26 | 1,454 |
| 12 | Walton, | — | 24 | 2,156 |
| 13 | Bernard Storm | — | 21 | 536 |
| 14 | Ernie's Mountain Drilling Inc. | — | 17 | 3,118 |
| 15 | Mcpherson Drilling Company | — | 17 | 2,664 |
| 16 | Bernard Drilling Co. | — | 15 | 696 |
| 17 | Hersh & Son Well Drilling Inc. | — | 14 | 2,015 |
| 18 | DL Drilling LLC | — | 14 | 237 |
| 19 | Reaksecker Well Drilling | — | 7 | 1,435 |
| 20 | Drilling Engineers Inc. | — | 7 | 553 |
| 21 | High Desert Irrigation LLC | — | 6 | 1,942 |
| 22 | Hackworth Drilling Inc. | — | 5 | 188 |
| 23 | Norris Brothers | — | 5 | 183 |
| 24 | Domestic Water Consultants Inc. | — | 5 | 129 |
| 25 | Hamacher Well Works Inc. | — | 3 | 10,447 |
| 26 | Rupp Drilling Co., Inc. | — | 3 | 226 |
| 27 | John's Drilling Inc. | — | 2 | 1,460 |
| 28 | Ernest C Young | — | 2 | 445 |
| 29 | Aragon Drilling Co. | — | 2 | 205 |
| 30 | Allen Drilling & Excavating Co., Inc. | — | 1 | 3,788 |
| 31 | Johns Well Service | — | 1 | 123 |
| 32 | Bob Williams Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 3,521 |
| 33 | Twin Peaks Drilling | — | 1 | 475 |
| 34 | Woods Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 3,293 |
| 35 | Lesh Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 2,470 |
| 36 | Leslie George Canfield | — | 1 | 2,170 |
| 37 | Mccoy Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 887 |
| 38 | Schmitt Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 621 |
| 39 | Kunau Drilling & Excavation | — | 1 | 465 |
| 40 | Living Water Well & Pump Inc. | — | 1 | 414 |
| 41 | Harry Young Drilling | — | 1 | 321 |
| 42 | Air West Drilling | — | 1 | 237 |
| 43 | Harry D Christensen | — | 1 | 173 |
| 44 | Carlyle's Well Drilling Serv. | — | 1 | 127 |
| 45 | Baski Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 65 |
| 46 | Sidney Lilly D. | — | 1 | 63 |
| 47 | Hill Depriest | — | 1 | 46 |
| 48 | Kirk Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 28 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Gilpin County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full DWR
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 Gilpin County?
C. R. Smith Drilling has drilled the most Gilpin County wells in the recent record — 182 since 2016, 1,483 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Gilpin County?
48 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Gilpin County; 11 of them have drilled somewhere in Colorado since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
How deep is a typical well in Gilpin County?
The median drilled depth in Gilpin County is 250 ft, based on 4,387 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Gilpin County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Gilpin County wells page.
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