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Best well drillers in San Miguel County, Colorado
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 48 drilling companies with wells
on record in San Miguel County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,819 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.
48companies on record
16active since 2022
1,819wells in county record
| # | Company | In San Miguel Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Mccracken Well Drilling Inc. | 155 | 265 | 733 |
| 2 | Valley Drilling Co. | 15 | 368 | 1,166 |
| 3 | Wildcat Drilling & Pump, Inc. | 4 | 12 | 1,251 |
| 4 | Groundwater Dev. Inc. | 3 | 65 | 214 |
| 5 | Ucolo Drilling LLC | 1 | 9 | 255 |
| 6 | Bill Kissner Drilling Inc. | — | 372 | 1,313 |
| 7 | Western Drilling Services, LLC | — | 228 | 600 |
| 8 | Golden Eagle Drilling Corporation | — | 94 | 3,979 |
| 9 | Gordon Smith And Company | — | 85 | 218 |
| 10 | Shelton Drilling Corporation | — | 37 | 6,154 |
| 11 | Rex Wyatt Drilling Co. | — | 35 | 90 |
| 12 | Mccluer & Son's Drilling Inc. | — | 23 | 137 |
| 13 | K. W. Anderson Drilling | — | 22 | 316 |
| 14 | Smith Drilling C/O Gordon R. Smith | — | 20 | 83 |
| 15 | Story Drilling | — | 19 | 38 |
| 16 | Timberline Aqua Tec | — | 15 | 191 |
| 17 | Lang Equipment, LLC | — | 15 | 190 |
| 18 | Steve Shelton Drilling, Inc. | — | 14 | 1,160 |
| 19 | Strain Excavating | — | 13 | 194 |
| 20 | Valley Pump Company | — | 9 | 2,579 |
| 21 | Bob Williams Drilling Co. | — | 9 | 3,521 |
| 22 | Wayne Drilling Service | — | 9 | 43 |
| 23 | Jerome M. Waler | — | 9 | 28 |
| 24 | Mcpherson Drilling Company | — | 7 | 2,664 |
| 25 | Kilby's Water Well Service | — | 7 | 111 |
| 26 | T. J. Drilling Inc. | — | 7 | 25 |
| 27 | Beeman Bros Drilling Inc. | — | 6 | 3,538 |
| 28 | DA Smith Drilling Company | — | 6 | 108 |
| 29 | Himes Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 5 | 218 |
| 30 | Young's Drilling & Pump Services | — | 4 | 1,840 |
| 31 | Rocky Mountain Drlg./Pump Svcs | — | 4 | 335 |
| 32 | Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. | — | 3 | 1,088 |
| 33 | Newmyer Development Co. | — | 3 | 67 |
| 34 | Fritz Erickson Mining | — | 3 | 27 |
| 35 | LA Plata Machine And Supply | — | 3 | 27 |
| 36 | Johnson Brothers | — | 2 | 112 |
| 37 | James Drilling Company | — | 1 | 6,736 |
| 38 | Living Water Systems Inc. | — | 1 | 3,572 |
| 39 | Cascade Drilling, LP | — | 1 | 70 |
| 40 | Layne, Christensen Co. | — | 1 | 1,963 |
| 41 | Aspen Drilling Company Inc. | — | 1 | 2,648 |
| 42 | Mortimer Water Well Drilling | — | 1 | 1,537 |
| 43 | Townley Drilling | — | 1 | 755 |
| 44 | Layne Western Company Inc. | — | 1 | 659 |
| 45 | M & G Drilling & Supply | — | 1 | 439 |
| 46 | Meredith Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 164 |
| 47 | Maxey Well Works | — | 1 | 146 |
| 48 | Johnson Well Drilling | — | 1 | 29 |
Ranked by wells drilled in San Miguel 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 San Miguel County?
Mccracken Well Drilling Inc. has drilled the most San Miguel County wells in the recent record — 155 since 2016, 265 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in San Miguel County?
48 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in San Miguel County; 16 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 San Miguel County?
The median drilled depth in San Miguel County is 180 ft, based on 2,982 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the San Miguel County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the San Miguel County wells page.
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