Kentucky Well Drillers Directory

Every company that appears as the driller of record in the Kentucky groundwater data repository (KGS) and Division of Water well records, ranked by the number of wells they have drilled. 125 Kentucky drilling companies account for 33,609 logged wells. Each profile shows the counties a company works, its well characteristics, and links to its original drilling logs — all drawn directly from the state record.

125drilling companies

4active since 2022

33,609wells on record

Companies with at least 25 wells on record. "Active" counts wells completed since 2022.

#	Company	Wells	Since 2022	Counties	Most recent
1	Billy L Lewis	1,010	135	68	2024-12-06
2	Shawn B Fisher	26	15	10	2024-02-12
3	Ronald A Powers	86	11	6	2023-05-17
4	Gus E Naranjo JR	1,798	7	9	2024-10-28
5	Kevin R Moses	416	2	45	2022-02-14
6	Alan W Burgess	1,086	1	8	2024-12-20
7	Daniel Scott Kelly	84	1	8	2022-07-22
8	John J Bingham	51	1	12	2024-01-08
9	Alger Bentley	2,569	—	17	2014-10-20
10	Steven D Cox	1,305	—	8	2017-04-01
11	Clarence E Gibson	1,234	—	13	2005-05-01
12	James E Allen	869	—	12	2004-07-13
13	Lowell V Ray	865	—	8	1995-05-08
14	Homer Pearson	827	—	7	1998-03-26
15	Connie E Sears	801	—	8	2002-05-16
16	Tommy Maybrier	784	—	24	2010-06-29
17	Danny R Kelly	753	—	9	2016-11-09
18	George W Vanhoose	718	—	9	2017-07-10
19	Randall P Hatfield	702	—	10	2000-08-19
20	Loyd Lancaster	689	—	15	2011-09-28
21	Bennett W Gibson	671	—	10	2007-11-23
22	Jerry D Jones	648	—	5	2002-12-16
23	Johnnie P Ramsey SR	605	—	9	2002-10-01
24	Ray Starks	599	—	4	2004-02-24
25	Joe Maybrier	553	—	20	2017-01-20
26	Hershel D Cole	525	—	14	2006-12-09
27	William R Kingsbury	461	—	13	2004-01-01
28	Keith W Starks	435	—	7	2019-04-10
29	Walter Hays	367	—	8	2000-06-12
30	Travis E Combs	354	—	9	2006-07-06
31	Herbert J Newberry	343	—	3	2011-08-09
32	Pat Mackey	341	—	11	2015-08-29
33	Carl R Hennecke	330	—	9	1998-11-28
34	Rex Bray JR	305	—	13	2004-12-24
35	Milford O Anderson	293	—	4	2003-07-16
36	Elvadean Lambdin	289	—	4	2002-05-20
37	Richard L Welch	286	—	6	2011-09-26
38	Daniel W Martin	273	—	23	2010-03-02
39	Gary M Fletcher	270	—	14	1991-09-05
40	Billy L Fondaw	268	—	11	2020-04-25
41	Jerome Kinzer	264	—	12	2007-12-28
42	Bill Fondaw	261	—	15	2016-05-03
43	Roy E Bingham	254	—	17	2013-06-06
44	James H Parsons II	250	—	8	2015-05-18
45	Roy Robertson	216	—	3	2001-12-26
46	John Bowman	214	—	8	2021-05-26
47	Bruce Mcglone	210	—	4	1998-05-19
48	Benny O Scott	206	—	19	1990-09-14
49	Kevin S Pearson	200	—	8	2019-11-29
50	Thelma A Parsons	200	—	7	1991-10-10
51	Vurles C Logsdon	194	—	6	2017-04-10
52	Uncertified Driller	186	—	62	2020-01-01
53	Waymon Burton	185	—	12	1996-05-17
54	James T Spurlock	172	—	5	2001-04-19
55	Paul D Faulkner	171	—	26	1994-03-04
56	Bobby Burton	168	—	8	2001-04-13
57	Kenneth Westerfield	166	—	9	2003-03-08
58	James E Lemaster	162	—	5	1991-10-24
59	Gerald Ferguson	161	—	13	2004-06-22
60	Hays Lewis JR	160	—	11	1998-11-20
61	Johnnie P Ramsey JR	159	—	5	2002-10-25
62	Howard F Parsons SR	150	—	5	1995-02-14
63	Kerry G Cox	147	—	3	2018-09-03
64	William R Maybrier	146	—	13	2004-06-18
65	Hugh C Yates	143	—	10	1987-10-16
66	Dale Howell	137	—	5	1988-12-11
67	Jonah Maynard	131	—	3	2000-04-18
68	Arthur Smith	127	—	2	2001-04-14
69	Harry (Jay) J Burton	121	—	16	2017-11-13
70	Jim Earlywine	121	—	6	1995-01-26
71	James G Schmitt	112	—	1	2014-05-05
72	Ben Chapman	112	—	2	1989-04-28
73	Jim M Melton	109	—	5	2002-04-18
74	John Schmidt	108	—	17	2010-06-30
75	Paul Perkins	103	—	3	1992-05-01
76	Alan K Kingsbury	99	—	6	1992-02-27
77	Robert J Fields	96	—	5	1988-01-01
78	Robert M Wright	95	—	13	1999-01-20
79	Elmer R Mays	95	—	4	1996-09-24
80	James H Parsons	90	—	7	1994-06-29
81	Earl Cowden	86	—	4	1991-05-15
82	Michael R Murray	85	—	15	2014-05-20
83	Harold Norman	81	—	7	1998-06-05
84	Jim W Bates II	79	—	8	2001-12-05
85	James Frazier	77	—	8	2002-12-01
86	William T Young	76	—	5	1990-10-02
87	Russell Lowery	75	—	3	1998-02-05
88	John U Hamm	72	—	7	1995-10-29
89	Keith Conley	70	—	4	2000-08-21
90	Anthony W Ward	69	—	3	1988-09-08
91	Kenneth L York	65	—	8	1992-04-14
92	Romuald E Eckols	64	—	5	1989-05-26
93	Gilbert Hibbard JR	63	—	3	2015-09-16
94	Dennis R Parsons	62	—	6	1992-08-10
95	Ira T Key	58	—	5	1991-01-05
96	Charles Meredith	58	—	6	1990-06-01
97	Robert Walters	58	—	3	1991-08-30
98	Leon Stafford	56	—	5	1995-08-28
99	Kermit Pinkerton	53	—	5	1996-01-01
100	Joe H Jackson	51	—	7	1995-07-27
101	Don Newsom	51	—	6	1992-01-01
102	Timothy B Wheeler	50	—	20	2000-06-29
103	Thomas S Anthony	48	—	5	2005-03-04
104	Everett F Conley	48	—	4	1991-08-07
105	Gary Stephenson	47	—	15	2017-09-26
106	Elmore Lewis	45	—	5	2007-04-01
107	Ben F Cox	44	—	6	1994-10-31
108	Gene Kelly	43	—	8	1989-06-15
109	Bill Ratliff	43	—	6	2013-08-09
110	Donald L Funk	40	—	3	2011-08-15
111	George T Neely	40	—	4	1995-03-01
112	Marc S Naranjo	39	—	6	2017-11-14
113	Bascom S Funk	39	—	3	2006-11-30
114	Joseph L Goebel	38	—	8	2009-09-30
115	Scott A Richardville	37	—	4	2016-03-30
116	William J Parsons	33	—	3	1986-07-02
117	Barry L Singleton	33	—	9	2014-01-29
118	Paul E Keaton	33	—	4	1992-09-29
119	Frank Neeley	32	—	3	1992-03-21
120	Wallace J Pinson	32	—	6	2003-05-15
121	Gary W Sprowls	32	—	1	1998-05-06
122	P W Langley	30	—	9	1995-03-17
123	Eldon Hays	30	—	5	1987-07-28
124	Gregory L Trent	27	—	5	1987-07-14
125	William E Price	27	—	4	2019-04-16

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