Best well drillers in Clay County, Florida

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 355 drilling companies with wells on record in Clay County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 11,300 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.

355companies on record

159active since 2022

11,300wells in county record

#	Company	In Clay Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Everette Heffner	291	378	390
2	Vcc	131	131	394
3	Jackie P	131	131	375
4	Justin B	114	114	373
5	James Rhoad	111	111	786
6	Andrew Van Wie	107	108	128
7	Loyd Plaisted	104	121	946
8	Alan K	86	86	251
9	James Cornelio	75	99	1,121
10	C. Allen Daymon Jr.	66	71	239
11	Shawn Dowdy	63	253	834
12	C. Allen Daymon	61	121	259
13	Blair A	59	59	295
14	Shawn Brown	46	46	151
15	Richard C	43	43	227
16	Ajm	42	42	125
17	Randy B	41	42	138
18	Jeff Kinard	40	40	257
19	Tristan Andrews	36	36	145
20	Caden Barrett	35	35	174
21	Austin Layman	34	34	430
22	Tyler Thomas	33	33	71
23	Robby Crowfoot	32	32	1,104
24	Trey Huddleston	31	31	722
25	Darin A	31	31	91
26	Devon Wiggins	28	28	184
27	David Hardee	28	28	119
28	Justin Mizell	27	27	710
29	Will Rockenstyre	27	27	44
30	Henry Colston	24	26	888
31	Chad Hall	23	26	1,062
32	Robby Crofoot	23	23	717
33	Jimmy M	23	23	124
34	Cory W	21	21	76
35	Melvin Sanchez	21	21	66
36	Kenyon Howard	21	21	38
37	Kyle Daymon	20	20	25
38	Jozsef D	20	20	91
39	Jack Padgett	19	28	31
40	Noah E	19	19	82
41	Loyd Plasted	19	19	50
42	Joe Baker	18	18	68
43	Bart Andrews	16	62	169
44	Jacob Larkin	16	24	121
45	Erik Hammer	16	16	242
46	Meeks	16	16	45
47	Clyde Perry	15	15	164
48	Kamryn Underhill	15	15	60
49	Jack P	14	14	47
50	Jeff Zeigler	13	29	1,226
51	Ariel Torres	13	28	397
52	Chris Phelps	12	16	811
53	Terry	12	14	121
54	Dennis Layman	12	12	76
55	David Seymour	12	12	57
56	Brian Ehrhart	11	14	164
57	Brendan Busbee	11	11	143
58	Paul Otto	11	11	207
59	Justin Sullivan	11	11	230
60	Dillan Clyatt	11	11	34
61	Philip Miller	10	13	35
62	Cevin Hammock	10	10	30
63	Eugene Preston	9	9	126
64	AJ Melendez	9	9	25
65	Bryan Nazworth	8	15	292
66	Richard Canipe	8	14	51
67	Virgil Howell	8	8	350
68	Tommy T	8	8	26
69	Paul Poorbaugh	7	8	191
70	Tim Moyer	7	7	129
71	Brett Blanton	7	7	35
72	Ashley Byers	7	7	59
73	Blake Hare	7	7	28
74	Christian Dodd	6	17	1,265
75	Paul Buchler	6	9	51
76	TI Williams	6	6	56
77	Jesse Delamater	6	6	38
78	Daniel G	6	6	41
79	Michael Daughtery	6	6	103
80	Alan Lamtman	6	6	34
81	Bobby Layman	5	47	417
82	Jared Link	5	16	1,075
83	Roy Rowland	5	7	53
84	Jose Wagner	5	5	294
85	Ulises Torres	5	5	149
86	Ryan H	5	5	26
87	Kevin Rogers	5	5	109
88	John Nemeskery?	4	320	898
89	Lance Partridge	4	20	59
90	Glen Pennington	4	7	399
91	Grady Christian	4	4	993
92	Jeffrey Kinard	4	4	113
93	Logan Corbett	4	4	120
94	Austin Layman, Cherin Layman	4	4	35
95	Dennis Gibbs	3	42	56
96	Chuck Schmidt	3	29	38
97	David Weeks	3	26	208
98	Sergey Ponkratov	3	3	549
99	Danny Richards	3	3	393
100	Steve Houck	3	3	242
101	Dewayne Mcvay	3	3	196
102	Hunter Winkleman	3	3	160
103	Randy Conrad	3	3	228
104	Patrick Zomer	3	3	81
105	Derek Dueling	3	3	81
106	Pete Mangham	3	3	76
107	Wayne Kennedy	3	3	32
108	Allen Daymon	2	255	293
109	Ronald Moore	2	123	192
110	Tommy Higginbotham	2	42	1,335
111	J Meeks	2	18	32
112	Eddie Palmer	2	16	167
113	Billy Moss	2	11	646
114	W Smitherman	2	8	73
115	Terry Martin	2	4	28
116	Trey Creamer	2	4	92
117	Jonathan Brandon	2	3	43
118	Duane Taylor	2	2	691
119	Sam Segarra	2	2	141
120	Roger Raulerson	2	2	151
121	Marc Nieves	2	2	89
122	Mikhail Ponkratov	2	2	180
123	James Larsen	2	2	36
124	Hunter	2	2	35
125	Fred M	2	2	29
126	Efrain Perdomo	2	2	25
127	Ira Merritt	2	2	34
128	Randy Baker?	1	433	1,046
129	Alan Kelly	1	172	511
130	Tony Hutchins?	1	95	107
131	Philip E Miller	1	94	126
132	Jamie Cornelio	1	64	182
133	Philip T Miller?	1	23	31
134	Tony Winkleman	1	14	803
135	Steve Feagin	1	11	190
136	Tony Hudson	1	7	108
137	Mike	1	5	27
138	Dan Richards	1	3	159
139	Chris Perry	1	3	58
140	Cody Burroughs	1	1	529
141	Cody Anderson	1	1	461
142	Jason Mance	1	1	407
143	Kyle Peterson	1	1	131
144	Alex Cabral	1	1	96
145	David Longino	1	1	151
146	Paul A Poorbaugh	1	1	75
147	Pavel Ponkratov	1	1	68
148	TJ Hoppe	1	1	56
149	Clay Walker	1	1	56
150	TJ Baylor	1	1	41
151	Dennis Layman, Cherin Layman	1	1	36
152	Jimmy Larsen	1	1	34
153	James	1	1	90
154	Jimmy?	1	1	42
155	Ben Huss	1	1	36
156	Bubba Tait	1	1	33
157	Richard Hyland?	—	481	859
158	Ronald D. Moore?	—	453	901
159	David Coulter	—	402	717
160	Richard Hazelton?	—	371	585
161	Dick Hyland?	—	339	992
162	Andy Bates?	—	310	492
163	Clarence A Daymon?	—	307	378
164	Earl Reichelt?	—	277	1,523
165	Jeff Weatherford?	—	271	760
166	Franz P. Victor?	—	219	244
167	K. Florio?	—	160	201
168	Winston Moore	—	139	437
169	Glenn Mcgollie?	—	125	163
170	P. T. Miller?	—	119	199
171	John W. Nemeskery?	—	118	181
172	Jackie Padgett	—	110	180
173	Donald L. Moody?	—	79	86
174	F.p. Victor?	—	76	83
175	Andy Bater?	—	67	101
176	JT Myers	—	62	362
177	Richard W Rainey	—	60	103
178	Gary Oakes?	—	58	243
179	Mike Nicholson	—	53	441
180	Earl Reichert?	—	53	207
181	Allen Moore	—	48	139
182	Richard Hylad?	—	48	59
183	M Ponkratov	—	45	112
184	P E Miller	—	43	52
185	Jeffrey D Weatherford?	—	41	86
186	Kevin Reffuse	—	38	173
187	Mike Cole?	—	38	40
188	David M Weeks?	—	37	170
189	Forrest L Moody?	—	34	39
190	D Coulter?	—	28	40
191	Brett Sapp?	—	26	379
192	C Schmidt?	—	26	73
193	Terrell P Pallone?	—	26	26
194	Albert E Smith?	—	25	1,058
195	Merritt Partridge	—	25	131
196	Robert Suit	—	25	56
197	Donald Moody?	—	25	27
198	J Nemeskery?	—	24	78
199	R Baker?	—	24	55
200	Jamie Cornelis	—	24	38
201	Curtis L. Clyatt?	—	23	31
202	Kevin Valentino	—	22	549
203	Robert Smith	—	22	35
204	Tony Hotchins?	—	22	27
205	A. W. Floyd Jr.?	—	20	401
206	Michael E Nicholson?	—	20	184
207	Rondy Baker	—	18	27
208	Donnie Roberts?	—	17	28
209	Marcus Williams	—	16	455
210	Lewis Johnson	—	16	251
211	D Hyland?	—	16	38
212	Jimmy Martin?	—	16	36
213	Pete Erdmann?	—	14	203
214	Glenn Caldwell?	—	14	55
215	J Padgett?	—	14	49
216	Douglas R Riles JR	—	14	47
217	Larry J. Floyd?	—	13	61
218	Cliff I Clark	—	13	45
219	Dave Longino	—	12	479
220	Daniel B Moore	—	12	105
221	E Reichelt	—	12	93
222	David Francis?	—	12	82
223	Raymond Lebron	—	11	650
224	Albert Smith?	—	11	319
225	E. Smitherman	—	11	48
226	Michael ?	—	11	38
227	Carl Jenkins	—	10	26
228	Ricky	—	9	116
229	Peter Erdmann?	—	9	240
230	Jame Kelly?	—	9	167
231	Jerry Mcdonald?	—	9	120
232	Joe ?	—	8	144
233	Douglas R. Riles?	—	8	73
234	A Kelly?	—	8	70
235	William Lindsey?	—	8	57
236	Willie Johnson?	—	8	52
237	Alan C. Kelly?	—	8	49
238	Michael J Murphy	—	8	35
239	Mike Mizell	—	7	487
240	Mark Murray?	—	7	105
241	Lance Chaney	—	7	34
242	Nick Bishop	—	6	203
243	Jon Yarema	—	6	291
244	Steven Mather	—	6	52
245	R. T. Vermeulen?	—	6	32
246	Oliver Pederson	—	5	66
247	Greg Gatchell?	—	5	782
248	Mike Miller	—	5	163
249	Ray Pruitt?	—	5	132
250	James Davis?	—	5	123
251	Thomas Lynch	—	5	29
252	Tony	—	4	41
253	L. N. Williams?	—	4	1,134
254	Roger Dale Raulerson?	—	4	380
255	John Ward?	—	4	137
256	John Burkett?	—	4	122
257	Michael Bryson?	—	4	90
258	Anton Suarez	—	4	79
259	Eugene Baur?	—	4	76
260	J Weatherford?	—	4	69
261	Bobby Griner?	—	4	66
262	Tony Wink Leman	—	4	60
263	John Catron	—	4	52
264	Paul Grimes?	—	4	51
265	William Lindry?	—	4	45
266	Shawn Ouellette	—	4	35
267	Tim Myers	—	3	488
268	Burt Bishop?	—	3	639
269	James Robinson	—	3	54
270	Chris Burger	—	3	49
271	Richard Koltunski?	—	3	499
272	Martin C. Nuss?	—	3	297
273	Russ Wilkie?	—	3	242
274	Tommy Layman	—	3	169
275	Jim Hinst?	—	3	152
276	Tim Henderson?	—	3	125
277	Bill Pemberton?	—	3	87
278	John Roberts?	—	3	78
279	James Kelly?	—	3	77
280	Lewis M. Dykes?	—	3	75
281	Jay K Wasden?	—	3	64
282	Ricky Layman	—	3	46
283	James Alexander?	—	3	36
284	Michael Sheridan?	—	3	32
285	Randolph Morgan?	—	3	29
286	David	—	2	338
287	Omar Velazquez	—	2	54
288	Jeremy Destin	—	2	96
289	Mark Mock?	—	2	4,001
290	David Spencer?	—	2	154
291	Paul Destin	—	2	119
292	Wayne L Jannette	—	2	104
293	Jeffrey A Sheppard	—	2	99
294	Robert Phillips	—	2	75
295	Greg Waxel?	—	2	74
296	David Hearne?	—	2	62
297	Roderick Fuller?	—	2	53
298	Timothy A. Henderson?	—	2	49
299	Marty	—	2	39
300	Vance Biehl?	—	2	31
301	Terry Florio	—	2	29
302	William Boogar?	—	2	28
303	Robert Kinsey	—	2	26
304	Earl's Well Drilling & Pump Ser.	—	1	8,584
305	Jack Patterson	—	1	94
306	Kent Fowler	—	1	143
307	Raymond Robinson	—	1	123
308	Charles Bucher?	—	1	201
309	Jeff	—	1	144
310	Frank Decarlo?	—	1	92
311	David Howard?	—	1	1,346
312	Dwight Griffis?	—	1	948
313	Allen Moose?	—	1	806
314	Harry Mumford	—	1	446
315	James Black?	—	1	385
316	Charles Griggs	—	1	284
317	Tom George	—	1	232
318	Loyd	—	1	190
319	Martin Nuss?	—	1	185
320	Geoff Zitver	—	1	159
321	Doug Heath?	—	1	156
322	Bob Evans?	—	1	143
323	T. Mosley?	—	1	142
324	AL Ramsey?	—	1	117
325	Ralph Newby	—	1	106
326	Jim Moson?	—	1	99
327	M. Mizell?	—	1	94
328	Lamar Wilson?	—	1	93
329	Dusty Dunaway	—	1	89
330	Dennis Nix	—	1	84
331	Leo Weaver?	—	1	83
332	Bobby R Griner?	—	1	83
333	Gary Wagner?	—	1	81
334	Paul Young?	—	1	75
335	Mathew Dowdy	—	1	61
336	Tim Smith?	—	1	59
337	J. Mizell?	—	1	58
338	G Oakes?	—	1	55
339	Robert Schmidt?	—	1	54
340	Michael E Nicholsen?	—	1	53
341	Anthony Farmer	—	1	50
342	Toby Hill	—	1	46
343	J. Lopez?	—	1	45
344	Donald H. Stevison?	—	1	43
345	Marvin Sheppard	—	1	38
346	M Nicholson?	—	1	38
347	Tommy Higginbothan?	—	1	36
348	Don Mixon?	—	1	36
349	James Hare	—	1	35
350	Charlie Emmi	—	1	35
351	Luke Floyd?	—	1	35
352	Marty Layman	—	1	34
353	Ron Moor	—	1	32
354	Mike Konders?	—	1	27
355	George Matchett	—	1	26

Ranked by wells drilled in Clay 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 Clay County?

Everette Heffner has drilled the most Clay County wells in the recent record — 291 since 2016, 378 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Clay County?

355 companies in the FL WMD/county record have drilled wells in Clay County; 159 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 Clay County?

The median drilled depth in Clay County is 220 ft, based on 19,962 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Clay County wells page.

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

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