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Best well drillers in Lake County, Colorado
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 50 drilling companies with wells
on record in Lake County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,547 logged
wells in the Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR) well permit database (records as of 2026-09-22). Every number links back to
the public record.
50companies on record
17active since 2022
1,547wells in county record
| # | Company | In Lake Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Golden Eagle Drilling Corporation | 190 | 669 | 3,979 |
| 2 | Asap Well Drilling Inc. | 32 | 77 | 1,108 |
| 3 | Arrow Drilling | 2 | 4 | 2,706 |
| 4 | American Drilling Service | 1 | 35 | 3,553 |
| 5 | Mccoy Water Well/Precision Drilling | 1 | 4 | 88 |
| 6 | Boart Longyear Company | 1 | 1 | 26 |
| 7 | Twin Lakes Drilling Co. | — | 273 | 829 |
| 8 | Steve Shelton Drilling, Inc. | — | 111 | 1,160 |
| 9 | Shelton Drilling Corporation | — | 52 | 6,154 |
| 10 | Whitewater Drilling Inc. | — | 36 | 1,277 |
| 11 | Twin Peaks Drilling | — | 35 | 475 |
| 12 | Mccoy Drilling Inc. | — | 34 | 887 |
| 13 | Werner Drilling & Excavating | — | 32 | 625 |
| 14 | Woods Drilling Inc. | — | 25 | 3,293 |
| 15 | L. E. Lewis Drilling Co. | — | 18 | 123 |
| 16 | Dallas D. Werner | — | 15 | 437 |
| 17 | Inter Mountain Drilling Ltd. | — | 13 | 1,946 |
| 18 | Five Star Inc. | — | 13 | 632 |
| 19 | Paul Fletcher Drilling Co. | — | 13 | 179 |
| 20 | Young's Drilling & Pump Services | — | 11 | 1,840 |
| 21 | Layne, Christensen Co. | — | 11 | 1,963 |
| 22 | Aquafirst, LLC | — | 9 | 41 |
| 23 | Buena Vista Drilling | — | 6 | 1,367 |
| 24 | Brian Lake | — | 5 | 63 |
| 25 | Living Water Systems Inc. | — | 4 | 3,572 |
| 26 | Aspen Drilling Company Inc. | — | 4 | 2,648 |
| 27 | Canon Drilling & Pump Svc. | — | 4 | 28 |
| 28 | Virginia Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 3 | 2,167 |
| 29 | Kerr & Sons | — | 3 | 94 |
| 30 | James Drilling Company | — | 2 | 6,736 |
| 31 | Himes Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 2 | 218 |
| 32 | Terracon Consultants Inc. | — | 2 | 391 |
| 33 | M & M Backhoe Service | — | 2 | 497 |
| 34 | Precision Drilling | — | 2 | 115 |
| 35 | Baski Drilling Inc. | — | 2 | 65 |
| 36 | Allen Drilling & Excavating Co., Inc. | — | 1 | 3,788 |
| 37 | C. R. Smith Drilling | — | 1 | 2,039 |
| 38 | Nequette Drilling | — | 1 | 2,191 |
| 39 | Hersh & Son Well Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 2,015 |
| 40 | Ground Exploration LLC | — | 1 | 1,454 |
| 41 | Stan's Drilling | — | 1 | 1,365 |
| 42 | Mitchell Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 793 |
| 43 | Oliver Well Works | — | 1 | 465 |
| 44 | Bill Mccoy Enterprises | — | 1 | 385 |
| 45 | Smith Drilling | — | 1 | 234 |
| 46 | MA-Bel Drilling | — | 1 | 187 |
| 47 | E F Holman | — | 1 | 97 |
| 48 | Paul David Huff | — | 1 | 71 |
| 49 | Roger Schocke | — | 1 | 38 |
| 50 | Ken Thatcher | — | 1 | 26 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Lake 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 Lake County?
Golden Eagle Drilling Corporation has drilled the most Lake County wells in the recent record — 190 since 2016, 669 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Lake County?
50 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Lake County; 17 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 Lake County?
The median drilled depth in Lake County is 106 ft, based on 2,493 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Lake County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Lake County wells page.
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