Best well drillers in Alachua County, Florida

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 168 drilling companies with wells on record in Alachua County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,403 logged wells in Florida's water-management districts and county well-permitting programs (records as of 2026-08-14). Every number links back to the public record.

168companies on record

55active since 2022

1,403wells in county record

#	Company	In Alachua Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Oliver Pederson	61	61	66
2	Taylor Scruggs	53	53	119
3	Kevin Rogers	20	27	109
4	Chad Mccann	20	20	337
5	Randy Nimeth	19	19	56
6	Ariel Torres	8	15	397
7	Bubba Tait	8	8	33
8	Jeff Zeigler	7	18	1,226
9	Alan Lamtman	7	7	34
10	Eric Membreno	6	6	180
11	Jared Link	5	41	1,075
12	Christian Dodd	5	31	1,265
13	Dillan Clyatt	4	4	34
14	Transamerican Drilling & Testing	4	4	875
15	Billy Moss	3	16	646
16	Todd Clark	3	4	108
17	Mickey Ritter	2	2	703
18	Ruben Cabral	2	2	268
19	Eddie Hull	2	2	379
20	James T Skipper	1	28	28
21	Bryan Nazworth	1	8	292
22	Todd Townsend	1	2	26
23	James Cornelio	1	1	1,121
24	Glen Pennington	1	1	399
25	Paul Otto	1	1	207
26	Pat Zomer	1	1	78
27	Theotis Grider	1	1	42
28	Philip Miller	1	1	35
29	David Spencer?	—	120	154
30	Jeff Stillson?	—	91	183
31	Tim Myers	—	46	488
32	Paul Grimes?	—	44	51
33	John Hare	—	37	39
34	Charles Miller	—	35	35
35	Lester Burch	—	32	34
36	Lawrence J Bowen	—	31	2,161
37	Brent Jones	—	31	31
38	Stanley Griffis	—	25	25
39	Eugene Baur?	—	24	76
40	Cliff I Clark	—	23	45
41	Jon Yarema	—	20	291
42	Kevin Valentino	—	19	549
43	Marvin Sheppard	—	19	38
44	Henry Colston	—	16	888
45	Raymond Lebron	—	14	650
46	Richard Hazelton?	—	12	585
47	Stephen Eschbach?	—	12	50
48	Randall C Woodard SR	—	12	26
49	James Hare	—	11	35
50	Tony Hudson	—	10	108
51	David Muffett	—	10	1,253
52	John Cornett	—	10	487
53	Bill Pemberton?	—	10	87
54	Robert A. Sams?	—	10	37
55	Russ Wilkie?	—	9	242
56	Anwar Hak	—	9	89
57	Lewis Johnson	—	8	251
58	Jerry Mcdonald?	—	8	120
59	D. Spencer?	—	8	67
60	Lance Johnson	—	8	39
61	William Young?	—	8	26
62	P. T. Miller?	—	7	199
63	Kevin Reffuse	—	7	173
64	Jay K Wasden?	—	7	64
65	Paul D. Buozis?	—	7	36
66	Randy Conrad	—	6	228
67	Glenn Mcgollie?	—	6	163
68	Fred Mckay	—	5	3,636
69	George Taylor	—	5	411
70	Earl Muffett?	—	5	182
71	Bart Andrews	—	5	169
72	Eddie Palmer	—	5	167
73	Steve Eschbach?	—	5	64
74	Tommy Higginbotham	—	4	1,335
75	Dave Longino	—	4	479
76	Gary Pickel	—	4	3,470
77	Mike Nicholson	—	4	441
78	Jack Brooks?	—	4	266
79	Jim Hinst?	—	4	152
80	John Ward?	—	4	137
81	Michael A. Brewer?	—	4	130
82	John Roberts?	—	4	78
83	Tom Corson?	—	4	32
84	Cory Ratchford	—	3	2,049
85	Shawn Dowdy	—	3	834
86	Bobby Layman	—	3	417
87	Charles Bucher?	—	3	201
88	Mike Muffett	—	3	633
89	Bob Evans?	—	3	143
90	Jeffrey A Sheppard	—	3	99
91	Garry Lentz?	—	3	95
92	Lamar Wilson?	—	3	93
93	Jim Roberts?	—	3	85
94	Robert Kinsey	—	3	26
95	Tim Simmons	—	2	520
96	Carl Leonhardt	—	2	152
97	Nick Bishop	—	2	203
98	Roy Rushing?	—	2	39
99	Jim Mason	—	2	729
100	Armand Rigby	—	2	244
101	Franz P. Victor?	—	2	244
102	Doug Heath?	—	2	156
103	Ken Brown	—	2	149
104	Mitch Ousley?	—	2	126
105	Carl Vanzant	—	2	112
106	Jim Moson?	—	2	99
107	Mike Shipp	—	2	99
108	Leo Weaver?	—	2	83
109	Mike Slipp	—	2	80
110	Dennis Perez?	—	2	71
111	Tim Smith?	—	2	59
112	Ike Scott	—	2	56
113	Glenn Caldwell?	—	2	55
114	Armand D Rigby?	—	2	28
115	Walter Herndon	—	1	4,094
116	Dmc Industries, Inc.	—	1	4,370
117	Marcus Williams	—	1	455
118	James Laymon	—	1	223
119	Paul Smith	—	1	1,732
120	Tony Winkleman	—	1	803
121	William Seglund	—	1	111
122	Southeast Drilling	—	1	3,637
123	Clyatt Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	131
124	James Hinst	—	1	139
125	Paul Petrey	—	1	28
126	Jerry E Thompson	—	1	59
127	Donald Smith	—	1	60
128	Jerry Thompson	—	1	76
129	Kenny Brown	—	1	136
130	Tony Hutchins?	—	1	107
131	Clay Soden	—	1	491
132	Southern Irr. Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	6,357
133	F.b.mccray Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	2,996
134	Paul	—	1	1,223
135	L. N. Williams?	—	1	1,134
136	Breed's Well Drilling	—	1	842
137	Cecil Collier	—	1	690
138	Winston Moore	—	1	437
139	Donnie Smith	—	1	358
140	Sheffield Well Drilling	—	1	343
141	K Lohr?	—	1	329
142	Albert Smith?	—	1	319
143	Peter Erdmann?	—	1	240
144	Daniel Curtin	—	1	136
145	John Bryant	—	1	127
146	John Burkett?	—	1	122
147	Corey L Hook	—	1	98
148	Greg Mcneill	—	1	94
149	Michael Bryson?	—	1	90
150	Dennis Nix	—	1	84
151	Lewis M. Dykes?	—	1	75
152	Greg Waxel?	—	1	74
153	Edwin Broxton?	—	1	70
154	Bobby Griner?	—	1	66
155	Mathew Dowdy	—	1	61
156	Armond Rigby?	—	1	57
157	L J B	—	1	56
158	Richard Reed?	—	1	55
159	J. Lopez?	—	1	45
160	Frank Whithem	—	1	38
161	Paul Thomas	—	1	33
162	Jeffrey Hovell?	—	1	31
163	Curtis L. Clyatt?	—	1	31
164	L J Bowen	—	1	31
165	Vance Biehl?	—	1	31
166	George Matthew?	—	1	29
167	L B	—	1	29
168	Michael Brewer?	—	1	26

Ranked by wells drilled in Alachua County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full FL WMD/county 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 Alachua County?

Oliver Pederson has drilled the most Alachua County wells in the recent record — 61 since 2016, 61 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Alachua County?

168 companies in the FL WMD/county record have drilled wells in Alachua County; 55 of them have drilled somewhere in Florida since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Alachua County?

The median drilled depth in Alachua County is 75 ft, based on 4,501 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Alachua County wells page.

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

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