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Best well drillers in Clear Creek County, Colorado
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 73 drilling companies with wells
on record in Clear Creek County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,858 logged
wells in the Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR) well permit database (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to
the public record.
73companies on record
16active since 2022
2,858wells in county record
| # | Company | In Clear Creek Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | James Drilling Company | 114 | 666 | 6,736 |
| 2 | Living Water Systems Inc. | 10 | 311 | 3,572 |
| 3 | C. R. Smith Drilling | 9 | 82 | 2,039 |
| 4 | Holland/Mcmullen Water Well Drilling | 8 | 10 | 427 |
| 5 | Holland And Sons Water Well Drilling | 3 | 4 | 275 |
| 6 | Layne A Granite Company | 3 | 3 | 35 |
| 7 | Arrow Drilling | 2 | 71 | 2,709 |
| 8 | Boart Longyear Company | 2 | 2 | 26 |
| 9 | Crandall Drilling & Pump Service | 1 | 1 | 3,578 |
| 10 | Kelley Dewatering And Construction Company | 1 | 1 | 538 |
| 11 | Can-America Drilling, Inc. | 1 | 1 | 5,159 |
| 12 | Ernie's Mountain Drilling Inc. | — | 318 | 3,118 |
| 13 | Aspen Drilling Company Inc. | — | 283 | 2,648 |
| 14 | Walton, | — | 275 | 2,156 |
| 15 | Mcpherson Drilling Company | — | 132 | 2,664 |
| 16 | Virginia Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 100 | 2,167 |
| 17 | James Storm | — | 93 | 1,117 |
| 18 | Bernard Drilling Co. | — | 56 | 696 |
| 19 | Bernard Storm | — | 53 | 536 |
| 20 | Living Water Well & Pump Inc. | — | 41 | 414 |
| 21 | Air West Drilling | — | 40 | 237 |
| 22 | Rupp Drilling Co., Inc. | — | 35 | 226 |
| 23 | Carlyle's Well Drilling Serv. | — | 30 | 127 |
| 24 | Evergreen Drilling | — | 23 | 82 |
| 25 | Reaksecker Well Drilling | — | 21 | 1,435 |
| 26 | Schmitt Drilling Co. | — | 20 | 621 |
| 27 | Ground Water Systems Inc. | — | 17 | 3,481 |
| 28 | Genevieve L Dale | — | 16 | 414 |
| 29 | DL Drilling LLC | — | 11 | 237 |
| 30 | Ground Exploration LLC | — | 10 | 1,454 |
| 31 | Buena Vista Drilling | — | 10 | 1,367 |
| 32 | Norris & Sons | — | 9 | 1,573 |
| 33 | Rumberg Inc. | — | 9 | 54 |
| 34 | Layne, Christensen Co. | — | 8 | 1,963 |
| 35 | Stan's Drilling | — | 8 | 1,365 |
| 36 | Strain Excavating | — | 6 | 194 |
| 37 | Golden Eagle Drilling Corporation | — | 5 | 3,981 |
| 38 | Black Mountain Enterprises LLC | — | 5 | 3,016 |
| 39 | John's Drilling Inc. | — | 5 | 1,460 |
| 40 | Aragon Drilling Co. | — | 4 | 205 |
| 41 | Hackworth Drilling Inc. | — | 4 | 188 |
| 42 | Domestic Water Consultants Inc. | — | 4 | 129 |
| 43 | Sidney Lilly D. | — | 4 | 63 |
| 44 | Jim Keaton Drilling Co. | — | 4 | 34 |
| 45 | Charles L Grabler | — | 4 | 32 |
| 46 | Shelton Drilling Corporation | — | 3 | 6,161 |
| 47 | Glen Cole | — | 3 | 84 |
| 48 | Howard C Bainbridge | — | 3 | 64 |
| 49 | William L Eden | — | 3 | 58 |
| 50 | Schmitt & Francis Drilling | — | 3 | 42 |
| 51 | Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. | — | 2 | 1,088 |
| 52 | Layne Western Company Inc. | — | 2 | 659 |
| 53 | Dallas D. Werner | — | 2 | 437 |
| 54 | J & J Drilling Inc. | — | 2 | 401 |
| 55 | Golden Drilling Inc. | — | 2 | 40 |
| 56 | Allen Drilling & Excavating Co., Inc. | — | 1 | 3,788 |
| 57 | High Desert Irrigation LLC | — | 1 | 1,942 |
| 58 | Hersh & Son Well Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 2,015 |
| 59 | Stewart Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 2,007 |
| 60 | Ernest C Young | — | 1 | 445 |
| 61 | Bomareto Pump And Equipment Company LLC | — | 1 | 234 |
| 62 | Stewart Well Drilling Co. | — | 1 | 193 |
| 63 | Lang Equipment, LLC | — | 1 | 190 |
| 64 | L & L Drilling | — | 1 | 122 |
| 65 | J Dixon | — | 1 | 82 |
| 66 | Marc Haes | — | 1 | 80 |
| 67 | Paul David Huff | — | 1 | 71 |
| 68 | Brian Lake | — | 1 | 63 |
| 69 | James P Tolson | — | 1 | 49 |
| 70 | Elmer Johnson Well Works | — | 1 | 41 |
| 71 | Victor E Mccrory | — | 1 | 40 |
| 72 | Shaffers Crossing Drilling | — | 1 | 32 |
| 73 | Tyra Well Drilling | — | 1 | 25 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek County?
James Drilling Company has drilled the most Clear Creek County wells in the recent record — 114 since 2016, 666 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Clear Creek County?
73 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek County?
The median drilled depth in Clear Creek County is 252 ft, based on 5,144 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Clear Creek County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Clear Creek County wells page.
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