Best well drillers in Alachua County, Florida

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 169 drilling companies with wells on record in Alachua County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,406 logged wells in Florida's water-management districts and county well-permitting programs (records as of 2026-09-28). Every number links back to the public record.

169companies on record

56active since 2022

1,406wells 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	1,236
9	Alan Lamtman	7	7	34
10	Eric Membreno	6	6	187
11	Jared Link	5	41	1,076
12	Christian Dodd	5	31	1,265
13	Dillan Clyatt	4	4	34
14	Transamerican Drilling & Testing	4	4	876
15	Billy Moss	3	16	646
16	Todd Clark	3	4	108
17	Mickey Ritter	2	2	709
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	1,123
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	478
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	2,051
85	Dmc Industries, Inc.	—	3	4,383
86	Shawn Dowdy	—	3	834
87	Bobby Layman	—	3	417
88	Charles Bucher?	—	3	201
89	Mike Muffett	—	3	633
90	Bob Evans?	—	3	143
91	Jeffrey A Sheppard	—	3	99
92	Garry Lentz?	—	3	95
93	Lamar Wilson?	—	3	93
94	Jim Roberts?	—	3	85
95	Robert Kinsey	—	3	26
96	Tim Simmons	—	2	524
97	Carl Leonhardt	—	2	152
98	Nick Bishop	—	2	203
99	Roy Rushing?	—	2	39
100	Jim Mason	—	2	729
101	Armand Rigby	—	2	244
102	Franz P. Victor?	—	2	244
103	Doug Heath?	—	2	156
104	Ken Brown	—	2	149
105	Mitch Ousley?	—	2	126
106	Carl Vanzant	—	2	112
107	Jim Moson?	—	2	99
108	Mike Shipp	—	2	99
109	Leo Weaver?	—	2	83
110	Mike Slipp	—	2	80
111	Dennis Perez?	—	2	71
112	Tim Smith?	—	2	59
113	Ike Scott	—	2	56
114	Glenn Caldwell?	—	2	55
115	Armand D Rigby?	—	2	28
116	Walter Herndon	—	1	4,099
117	Bass Well Drilling	—	1	2,778
118	Marcus Williams	—	1	455
119	James Laymon	—	1	223
120	Paul Smith	—	1	1,732
121	Tony Winkleman	—	1	803
122	William Seglund	—	1	111
123	Southeast Drilling	—	1	3,637
124	Clyatt Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	132
125	James Hinst	—	1	139
126	Paul Petrey	—	1	28
127	Jerry E Thompson	—	1	59
128	Tony Hutchins?	—	1	109
129	Donald Smith	—	1	60
130	Jerry Thompson	—	1	76
131	Kenny Brown	—	1	136
132	Clay Soden	—	1	491
133	Southern Irr. Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	6,357
134	F.b.mccray Well Drilling Inc.	—	1	2,996
135	Paul	—	1	1,223
136	L. N. Williams?	—	1	1,134
137	Breed's Well Drilling	—	1	842
138	Cecil Collier	—	1	690
139	Winston Moore	—	1	437
140	Donnie Smith	—	1	358
141	Sheffield Well Drilling	—	1	343
142	K Lohr?	—	1	329
143	Albert Smith?	—	1	319
144	Peter Erdmann?	—	1	240
145	Daniel Curtin	—	1	136
146	John Bryant	—	1	127
147	John Burkett?	—	1	122
148	Corey L Hook	—	1	98
149	Greg Mcneill	—	1	94
150	Michael Bryson?	—	1	90
151	Dennis Nix	—	1	84
152	Lewis M. Dykes?	—	1	75
153	Greg Waxel?	—	1	74
154	Edwin Broxton?	—	1	70
155	Bobby Griner?	—	1	66
156	Mathew Dowdy	—	1	61
157	Armond Rigby?	—	1	57
158	L J B	—	1	56
159	Richard Reed?	—	1	55
160	J. Lopez?	—	1	45
161	Frank Whithem	—	1	38
162	Paul Thomas	—	1	33
163	L J Bowen	—	1	31
164	Vance Biehl?	—	1	31
165	Curtis L. Clyatt?	—	1	31
166	Jeffrey Hovell?	—	1	31
167	L B	—	1	29
168	George Matthew?	—	1	29
169	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?

169 companies in the FL WMD/county record have drilled wells in Alachua County; 56 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 4,510 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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