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Best well drillers in Ouray County, Colorado

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 31 drilling companies with wells on record in Ouray County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 663 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.

31companies on record
10active since 2022
663wells in county record
#CompanyIn Ouray Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Mccracken Well Drilling Inc. 67 104 733
2 Valley Drilling Co. 10 315 1,166
3 Wildcat Drilling & Pump, Inc. 7 8 1,251
4 Groundwater Dev. Inc. 4 30 214
5 Central Pump Company 1 1 75
6 Western Drilling Services, LLC 53 600
7 Bill Kissner Drilling Inc. 30 1,313
8 Mccluer & Son's Drilling Inc. 26 137
9 K. W. Anderson Drilling 17 316
10 Strain Excavating 14 194
11 Timberline Aqua Tec 9 191
12 Johnson Brothers 9 112
13 Jerome M. Waler 8 28
14 Wayne Drilling Service 5 43
15 Smith Drilling C/O Gordon R. Smith 4 83
16 Johnson Well Drilling 4 29
17 Shelton Drilling Corporation 3 6,154
18 Valley Pump Company 3 2,579
19 Steve Shelton Drilling, Inc. 3 1,160
20 T. J. Drilling Inc. 3 25
21 Can-America Drilling, Inc. 2 5,159
22 Jonathon D Pinkerton 2 46
23 Pennell Drilling 2 35
24 Canfield Drilling Company 1 3,439
25 Rocky Mountain Waterworks LLC 1 893
26 Woods Drilling Inc. 1 3,293
27 Colorado Drilling Company 1 98
28 Western Star Drilling Co. 1 94
29 Rex Wyatt Drilling Co. 1 90
30 Story Drilling 1 38
31 Fritz Erickson Mining 1 27

Ranked by wells drilled in Ouray 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 Ouray County?

Mccracken Well Drilling Inc. has drilled the most Ouray County wells in the recent record — 67 since 2016, 104 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Ouray County?

31 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Ouray County; 10 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 Ouray County?

The median drilled depth in Ouray County is 209 ft, based on 1,083 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Ouray County wells page.

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

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