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Best well drillers in Gilpin County, Colorado

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 42 drilling companies with wells on record in Gilpin County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,979 logged wells in the Colorado Division of Water Resources (DWR) well permit database (records as of 2026-08-14). Every number links back to the public record.

42companies on record
9active since 2022
2,979wells in county record
#CompanyIn Gilpin Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 C. R. Smith Drilling 182 1,483 2,011
2 James Drilling Company 101 332 5,486
3 Ingram Drilling Inc. 6 33 4,780
4 Arrow Drilling Co. 5 107 1,009
5 Living Water Systems Inc. 2 27 3,521
6 Ground Water Systems Inc. 411 3,478
7 Norris & Sons 176 1,572
8 James Storm 126 1,083
9 Aspen Drilling Company Inc. 43 2,575
10 Virginia Drilling Co. Inc. 33 1,490
11 Ground Exploration LLC 26 1,245
12 Walton, 24 2,144
13 Bernard Storm 21 461
14 Ernie's Mountain Drilling Inc. 17 3,106
15 Mcpherson Drilling Company 17 194
16 Bernard Drilling Co. 15 678
17 Hersh & Son Well Drilling Inc. 14 1,993
18 DL Drilling LLC 14 229
19 Reaksecker Well Drilling 7 1,369
20 Drilling Engineers Inc. 7 505
21 High Desert Irrigation LLC 6 1,889
22 Norris Brothers 5 181
23 Hackworth Drilling Inc. 5 174
24 Domestic Water Consultants Inc. 5 94
25 Hamacher Well Works Inc. 3 5,770
26 Rupp Drilling Co., Inc. 3 225
27 John's Drilling Inc. 2 1,452
28 Ernest C Young 2 444
29 Aragon Drilling Co. 2 199
30 Allen Drilling & Excavating Co., Inc. 1 3,520
31 Johns Well Service 1 118
32 Lesh Drilling Inc. 1 2,445
33 Leslie George Canfield 1 2,164
34 Woods Drilling Inc. 1 1,849
35 Schmitt Drilling Co. 1 609
36 Living Water Well & Pump Inc. 1 411
37 Harry Young Drilling 1 320
38 Air West Drilling 1 229
39 Harry D Christensen 1 170
40 Carlyle's Well Drilling Serv. 1 127
41 Sidney Lilly D. 1 63
42 Hill Depriest 1 45

Ranked by wells drilled in Gilpin 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 Gilpin County?

C. R. Smith Drilling has drilled the most Gilpin County wells in the recent record — 182 since 2016, 1,483 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Gilpin County?

42 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Gilpin County; 9 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 Gilpin County?

The median drilled depth in Gilpin County is 250 ft, based on 4,387 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Gilpin County wells page.

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

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