Best well drillers in Indian River County, Florida

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 294 drilling companies with wells on record in Indian River County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 19,410 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.

294companies on record

119active since 2022

19,410wells in county record

#	Company	In Indian River Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Robert Scarborough	831	836	877
2	Tim Bechtold	804	1,086	1,139
3	Brad Stevens	612	612	628
4	Walter Herndon	610	1,991	4,094
5	Richard Peterson Sr.	252	253	432
6	Donald Barrett	204	205	206
7	Dennis Bourque	145	230	3,067
8	Austin Heath	123	123	123
9	Vince Zugay	118	118	754
10	Carl Counterman	47	47	48
11	Jason Mance	44	44	407
12	Robby Crofoot	42	42	717
13	Tyler Bradshaw	37	37	582
14	Ruben Koch	36	302	305
15	Richie Marl	35	62	108
16	James Paul Tyson	27	27	27
17	Scott Stevens	25	628	629
18	Paul Poorbaugh	25	28	191
19	Dandarrius Harvey	24	24	32
20	Chad Hall	21	24	1,062
21	Henry Colston	21	21	888
22	Joseph Ziegler	20	20	51
23	Chris Phelps	19	21	811
24	Ryan Hadden	19	19	627
25	James P Tyson	19	19	50
26	Richard Marl	18	53	56
27	Frank Alba	16	43	4,145
28	Mickey Ritter	16	16	703
29	Patrick Zomer	16	16	81
30	James Enis	15	15	56
31	Henry Mclaughlin	14	201	205
32	Christian Dodd	14	28	1,265
33	Kyle Reno	14	22	36
34	Steve Houck	14	14	242
35	Eric Membreno	14	14	180
36	Brad Price	13	61	288
37	James Rhoad	12	12	786
38	Dewayne Mcvay	12	12	196
39	Michael Alexander	12	12	50
40	Allan Kimmel	12	12	41
41	Danny Richards	11	11	393
42	Shawn Conboy	10	17	106
43	Robby Crowfoot	10	10	1,104
44	Justin Sullivan	10	10	230
45	Rodney Ethridge	10	10	51
46	Bradley J. Price?	8	178	290
47	Ulises Torres	8	10	149
48	Jeff Zeigler	8	8	1,226
49	Benjamin Skipper	8	8	83
50	Tyler Mclaughlin	7	27	27
51	Sean Houle	7	7	926
52	Dan Gronholz	6	6	106
53	Dalvise Curry	6	6	25
54	Scott Groover	5	32	136
55	Raymond Lebron	5	15	650
56	Edward Screws	5	5	1,124
57	Trey Huddleston	5	5	722
58	Scotty Barton	5	5	467
59	Ryan Farley	5	5	236
60	Levi Mainard	5	5	87
61	Wayne Kennedy	5	5	32
62	DJ Penny	5	5	25
63	Robert Hunter	4	7	121
64	Bryan Nazworth	4	6	292
65	Jose Wagner	4	4	294
66	Tyler Duncan	4	4	79
67	John Maffett	4	4	63
68	Taylor Scruggs	4	4	119
69	Theotis Grider	4	4	42
70	Jacob Larkin	4	4	121
71	Frank Decarlo?	3	69	92
72	Eddie Screws	3	35	761
73	William Screws	3	13	155
74	Bradley Price	3	11	254
75	Terry Milam	3	7	333
76	Benjamin J Bogus, Kathy Bogus, Benjamin R Bogus	3	7	197
77	Jacob Ploss	3	3	215
78	Jason Fromm	3	3	49
79	Joseph Baker	3	3	39
80	Robert C Hunter	3	3	1,190
81	Brandon Selph?	2	7	364
82	Kevin Reffuse	2	5	173
83	Randy Conrad	2	4	228
84	Joshua Goodrich	2	2	524
85	Shane Gulbrand	2	2	896
86	Sam Segarra	2	2	141
87	Brian Ehrhart	2	2	164
88	David Jones	2	2	75
89	Jay Mccubbin	2	2	63
90	Kenneth Farley	2	2	29
91	Salvador Cruz	2	2	72
92	Walter T. Herndon?	1	2,276	2,751
93	A. J. Schroeder?	1	380	380
94	Joshua Hayzlip	1	23	625
95	Kyle	1	17	27
96	ED Screws	1	13	294
97	Glen Pennington	1	12	399
98	Dan Richards	1	7	159
99	Bill Screws	1	7	35
100	Dusty Dunaway	1	5	89
101	Josh Welch	1	3	57
102	Alpha Robinson	1	1	337
103	Thomas King	1	1	82
104	Angel Coss	1	1	63
105	Kenneth Ryan Farley	1	1	51
106	Francisco Alba?	1	1	195
107	Alan Lamtman	1	1	34
108	David Howard?	—	1,285	1,346
109	Harold Whynot?	—	1,264	6,275
110	Kelsey Holton?	—	1,174	1,179
111	Jimmie Walker	—	625	626
112	Richard Molloy	—	378	409
113	Glenn A. Baumgarner?	—	323	1,014
114	Lester Peterson?	—	205	205
115	Tom Parrish?	—	194	196
116	Rubin Morris	—	143	144
117	Roy Moss?	—	138	509
118	Brian K. Stephens?	—	116	286
119	AL Bruce?	—	115	297
120	Ronald G. Mcmillan?	—	101	103
121	R Marl?	—	97	97
122	Walter T. Hernden?	—	95	115
123	Guillermo Griffa?	—	88	345
124	Jim Beath	—	88	89
125	Billy Screws	—	73	1,101
126	T. Parrish?	—	58	59
127	Danny Proffitt?	—	56	57
128	T Bechtold	—	53	55
129	Ron Campbell	—	53	54
130	Water T Herndon?	—	53	54
131	David Seldomridge?	—	53	53
132	Steven P Cook?	—	52	1,507
133	Tommy Higginbotham	—	47	1,335
134	Joseph E Spivey	—	47	159
135	Albert E Smart?	—	44	44
136	Ben Bogus/Kevin Thier	—	43	209
137	George Leonard	—	42	43
138	D. Spencer?	—	41	67
139	Henry H Mclaughlin?	—	40	40
140	Steve Schroeder?	—	40	40
141	J Beath?	—	40	40
142	Jimmie E. Walker?	—	39	39
143	Tim Mccullers	—	39	39
144	Ron Hardin?	—	37	38
145	Jerry Smith?	—	37	38
146	Dale W. Foreman?	—	35	2,097
147	Luther Peterson Jr.?	—	35	35
148	Robert Williams?	—	34	533
149	Paul Smith	—	33	1,732
150	James Przemieniecki?	—	33	279
151	Willy Griffa	—	33	58
152	D. Webb?	—	33	42
153	Richard Dube?	—	30	30
154	Albert E Smith?	—	28	1,058
155	Terry Smith?	—	28	31
156	I Guzman?	—	28	28
157	Chris S. Brown?	—	27	336
158	AJ Schroeder	—	27	27
159	Marvin Raulerson?	—	27	27
160	Dannie Decker?	—	26	60
161	Gary Sherwood?	—	26	27
162	Don Lundy	—	26	26
163	Aaron Allen Green?	—	25	26
164	Peter Erdmann?	—	24	240
165	David Spencer?	—	24	154
166	Pete Erdmann?	—	23	203
167	Jared Link	—	21	1,075
168	D M M	—	21	88
169	James O'neil?	—	20	118
170	G Mcmillan	—	20	57
171	Albert Smith?	—	18	319
172	Darren Phillips?	—	18	115
173	Billy Massingill	—	17	289
174	Gilbert Mcmillan	—	17	39
175	Sid Carter?	—	17	31
176	Skip Whynot	—	16	193
177	Glenn Baumgarner	—	16	67
178	David S. Johnson?	—	16	46
179	Gregory Campbell	—	15	257
180	Mike Miller	—	14	163
181	G G Griffa?	—	14	27
182	Dale Foreman?	—	13	383
183	Paul	—	12	1,223
184	Kevin Rogers	—	12	109
185	Greg Waxel?	—	12	74
186	James H. Musgrove	—	12	41
187	James Hare	—	12	35
188	Randall Schimmel?	—	11	48
189	Josh Hayzlip	—	10	256
190	Michael Daughtery	—	10	103
191	Ralph Palm?	—	10	48
192	David G. Greimel?	—	10	30
193	Daniel Meister?	—	9	155
194	Jeremy Thomas?	—	9	103
195	Jeff Bair?	—	9	37
196	Ariel Torres	—	8	397
197	Carl Leonhardt	—	7	152
198	Paul Lemenze	—	7	25
199	Steve Cook	—	7	352
200	Brad Gary?	—	7	311
201	Marlo Funelas	—	7	148
202	Jose Lopez	—	7	127
203	George O Smith?	—	7	50
204	Bradford Gary	—	7	46
205	Tony Hudson	—	6	108
206	Robert Schmidt?	—	6	54
207	J S	—	6	27
208	William Sandberg	—	5	737
209	Jon Yarema	—	5	291
210	Josue Landeros	—	5	182
211	Edwin Broxton?	—	5	70
212	Richard Reed?	—	5	55
213	Benjamin Bogus, Joseph Spivey	—	5	44
214	Ben Huss	—	5	36
215	Perry, Dillard R.?	—	4	1,221
216	Billy Moss	—	4	646
217	David Adams	—	4	383
218	Isaac Higgins	—	4	261
219	Robert William?	—	4	238
220	Steve P Cook?	—	4	38
221	Ben Bogus	—	4	37
222	R.duncan	—	3	28
223	Charles Bucher?	—	3	201
224	Charles?	—	3	30
225	Trey Creamer	—	3	92
226	Michael Bryson?	—	3	90
227	Eugene Baur?	—	3	76
228	Peter Lankerau?	—	3	42
229	Tommy Higginbothan?	—	3	36
230	David Griffey?	—	3	35
231	Kevin Thier/Ben Bogus?	—	3	33
232	R. Williams?	—	3	30
233	William Young?	—	3	26
234	Randy Robinson?	—	3	26
235	Marcus Williams	—	2	455
236	Nick Bishop	—	2	203
237	Frank Harrington?	—	2	654
238	Jeff	—	2	144
239	A. W. Floyd Jr.?	—	2	401
240	Horace Johnson?	—	2	218
241	Jerry Mcdonald?	—	2	120
242	Scott Gabriel	—	2	115
243	Bruce Perry	—	2	102
244	Thomas M Binford Iii?	—	2	85
245	Frank Albe?	—	2	74
246	W Smitherman	—	2	73
247	Ben Bogus/Jeremy Thomas	—	2	72
248	Duane Patten?	—	2	38
249	Henry Towns	—	2	36
250	Jim Fitsimones	—	2	35
251	Butch Krapf?	—	2	31
252	Larry Varney	—	2	31
253	Darin Hoffman	—	2	28
254	Jommy Higginbotham?	—	2	28
255	Carl Jenkins	—	2	26
256	Charles Weaver?	—	2	25
257	David Cullen	—	1	1,611
258	Poorbaugh, Paul	—	1	401
259	Lloyde Hiers	—	1	220
260	James	—	1	90
261	Fred Gumieny	—	1	46
262	Richard Peterson?	—	1	73
263	Peter Lankenau	—	1	1,589
264	James Black?	—	1	385
265	John Mcdonald	—	1	383
266	Dale Leighty?	—	1	278
267	James Fitsimones	—	1	222
268	Nick Smarrito?	—	1	170
269	Edward Berghammer	—	1	160
270	Jim Hinst?	—	1	152
271	Matt	—	1	151
272	John Ward?	—	1	137
273	Bill Pemberton?	—	1	87
274	Jim Roberts?	—	1	85
275	Mark Scanlon?	—	1	74
276	Dennis Perez?	—	1	71
277	Cory Cone	—	1	67
278	James D. Musgrove?	—	1	55
279	E. Smitherman	—	1	48
280	David Searfoss	—	1	42
281	Justin Koether	—	1	37
282	Scott	—	1	35
283	Shawn Ouellette	—	1	35
284	Charlie Emmi	—	1	35
285	Scott Hauge?	—	1	34
286	W. J. Herndon?	—	1	31
287	Henery Dunaway	—	1	30
288	Randolph Morgan?	—	1	29
289	Thomas Lynch	—	1	29
290	Lance Starling?	—	1	27
291	Billy?	—	1	26
292	Peter Lankeran	—	1	26
293	Sean Whalen	—	1	25
294	Frank Linehan	—	1	25

Ranked by wells drilled in Indian River 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 Indian River County?

Robert Scarborough has drilled the most Indian River County wells in the recent record — 831 since 2016, 836 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Indian River County?

294 companies in the FL WMD/county record have drilled wells in Indian River County; 119 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 Indian River County?

The median drilled depth in Indian River County is 80 ft, based on 36,341 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Indian River County wells page.

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

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