Best well drillers in Skagit County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 99 drilling companies with wells on record in Skagit County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 5,653 logged wells in Washington State Department of Ecology well construction reports (records as of 2026-10-02). Every number links back to the public record.

99companies on record

24active since 2022

5,653wells in county record

#	Company	In Skagit Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Ralph Riggles	260	913	1,995
2	Brannon Hopke	150	774	2,171
3	Ryan Wilhonen	84	252	883
4	Brent Barker	38	105	250
5	Westin Halvorson	22	22	156
6	David Rutledge	14	66	1,193
7	Eugene Hitt	11	90	479
8	Mark Sawyer	9	38	331
9	Dale Westby	6	49	415
10	Jason Boyd	4	17	48
11	Brett Boulton	3	10	269
12	Michael Florence	3	4	239
13	Jerry Peterson	2	14	139
14	Wayne Prince	1	475	529
15	E Himebaugh	1	10	559
16	Gary Maze	1	1	211
17	Charles Moore	1	1	1,335
18	Gray Rich	1	1	262
19	Richard Miller	1	1	64
20	David Meyer	1	1	1,153
21	Theodore Rieckers	—	399	828
22	Steve Gilbert	—	346	948
23	Greg Halvorson	—	278	511
24	Harold Fowler	—	229	374
25	Richard Spink	—	217	367
26	Kyle Schaeffer	—	153	584
27	Gregory Halvorson	—	135	321
28	Dean Hayes SR	—	123	321
29	Allan Countryman	—	118	127
30	Curtis Isaacson	—	91	306
31	Roy Smith JR	—	80	281
32	Wayne Logsdon	—	56	195
33	Calvin Anderson	—	50	51
34	Bruce Fowler	—	48	112
35	Bill Clothier	—	32	1,952
36	Joseph Nunes	—	32	676
37	Jason Solvey	—	29	118
38	Michael Mcadam	—	24	120
39	Paul Anderson	—	22	2,079
40	Irvin Westby	—	21	376
41	Rick Fetterly	—	21	51
42	William Johns	—	16	123
43	Dennis Faber	—	15	877
44	Kenneth Watkins	—	15	307
45	Lynn Bartholomew	—	14	439
46	Self Self	—	13	216
47	John Aumiller	—	13	26
48	David Deremer	—	12	643
49	Edward Countryman	—	12	155
50	Gerlof Boonstra	—	11	639
51	Lawrence Gosling	—	10	531
52	Tom Banta	—	10	39
53	Lanny Carpenter	—	9	714
54	Steven Staley	—	9	182
55	Kenneth Blackman	—	9	147
56	Kenneth Watkins JR	—	9	39
57	Daniel Martel	—	8	875
58	Mike Bach SR	—	7	263
59	Thomas Fulgham	—	7	101
60	David Battell	—	7	58
61	Stephen Speelmon	—	7	25
62	William Bever	—	6	299
63	Bryan Van Weerdhuizen	—	6	243
64	Todd Johnson	—	6	242
65	Alfred Mauldin	—	5	651
66	Herman Lehnart	—	5	466
67	Stanley Arnott	—	4	249
68	Jock Harris	—	4	337
69	Kenneth Engle	—	4	180
70	Don Stein	—	4	148
71	Larry Kounkel	—	4	70
72	Nicolas Sample	—	3	543
73	Gary Bartholomew	—	3	540
74	James Vignalli	—	3	157
75	Martin Brown	—	3	76
76	Ronald Aspaas	—	3	34
77	Jimmy Mauldin	—	2	498
78	Richard Deremer II	—	2	1,149
79	William Munich	—	2	774
80	Gordon Hanks	—	2	550
81	Michael Colbert	—	2	144
82	NA Unknown	—	2	140
83	Elijah Rutledge	—	1	54
84	Wade Iversen	—	1	171
85	Neil Richardson	—	1	564
86	Delbert Livermore	—	1	377
87	Michael Harding	—	1	298
88	John Sullivan	—	1	274
89	William Anderson	—	1	203
90	Felix Murphy	—	1	190
91	James Lehman	—	1	118
92	Lawrence Kulper	—	1	92
93	Glenn Bezona JR	—	1	85
94	Roger Indrebo	—	1	74
95	Edward Sweitzer	—	1	69
96	Zon Axelsen	—	1	56
97	William Ackley	—	1	52
98	Steve Johnson	—	1	44
99	C Brown	—	1	30

Ranked by wells drilled in Skagit County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full Ecology 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 Skagit County?

Ralph Riggles has drilled the most Skagit County wells in the recent record — 260 since 2016, 913 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Skagit County?

99 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Skagit County; 24 of them have drilled somewhere in Washington since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Skagit County?

The median drilled depth in Skagit County is 80 ft, based on 6,955 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Skagit County wells page.

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

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