Best well drillers in Whatcom County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 91 drilling companies with wells on record in Whatcom County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 7,070 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.

91companies on record

22active since 2022

7,070wells in county record

#	Company	In Whatcom Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Richard Smith	416	423	473
2	David Rutledge	177	280	1,193
3	Michael Florence	106	232	239
4	Brett Boulton	100	258	269
5	Brannon Hopke	48	453	2,171
6	Ryan Wilhonen	48	152	883
7	Ralph Riggles	32	146	1,995
8	Jerry Peterson	23	125	139
9	Bill Clothier	2	1,872	1,952
10	Paul Anderson	2	2	2,079
11	Matthew Call	2	2	250
12	Richard Miller	2	2	64
13	Des Woods	1	102	102
14	Kyle Schaeffer	1	96	584
15	Brent Barker	1	8	250
16	Jason Boyd	1	8	48
17	Jeremy Bach	1	1	744
18	Alex Kerslake	1	1	191
19	Westin Halvorson	1	1	156
20	Dale Westby	1	1	415
21	Lee Anderson	1	1	61
22	Herman Lehnart	—	457	466
23	Delbert Livermore	—	373	377
24	Steve Gilbert	—	281	948
25	Gerald Bezona	—	244	245
26	Bryan Van Weerdhuizen	—	235	243
27	Felix Murphy	—	175	190
28	Richard Spink	—	139	367
29	James Vignalli	—	127	157
30	Curtis Isaacson	—	74	306
31	Dean Hayes SR	—	71	321
32	Edward Sweitzer	—	67	69
33	Roy Smith JR	—	62	281
34	Glenn Bezona JR	—	60	85
35	Wayne Logsdon	—	58	195
36	Theodore Rieckers	—	46	828
37	Bryan Martinson	—	44	44
38	David Deremer	—	36	643
39	Cristhian Hernandez-Mendez	—	36	38
40	Michael Mcadam	—	30	120
41	Jason Solvey	—	30	118
42	Jeff Kimbrough	—	30	30
43	Harold Fowler	—	20	374
44	Rick Fetterly	—	17	51
45	Elijah Rutledge	—	15	54
46	Martin Brown	—	15	76
47	Lawrence Gosling	—	13	531
48	Lynn Bartholomew	—	13	439
49	John Aumiller	—	12	26
50	Lanny Carpenter	—	9	714
51	Self Self	—	9	216
52	Wayne Prince	—	8	529
53	Tom Banta	—	8	39
54	Joseph Booth JR	—	7	790
55	Stephen Speelmon	—	7	25
56	Allan Countryman	—	6	127
57	Bruce Fowler	—	5	112
58	Ronald Weist	—	5	50
59	Richard Deremer II	—	4	1,149
60	Lewis Adolph JR	—	4	233
61	Steven Staley	—	4	182
62	Thomas Fulgham	—	4	101
63	Gary Bartholomew	—	3	540
64	Greg Halvorson	—	3	511
65	Kenneth Watkins	—	3	307
66	Michael Colbert	—	3	144
67	Robert Carper	—	3	53
68	Daniel Martel	—	2	875
69	Joseph Nunes	—	2	676
70	Gregory Halvorson	—	2	321
71	NA Unknown	—	2	140
72	Todd Mickelsen	—	2	41
73	John Arfman	—	1	725
74	Willie Williams	—	1	985
75	Mark Sawyer	—	1	331
76	Jerry Crabtree	—	1	975
77	Roger Oelke	—	1	796
78	Gerlof Boonstra	—	1	639
79	Keith Vermillion	—	1	629
80	Brady Voth	—	1	612
81	Michael Ball	—	1	368
82	Mike Bach SR	—	1	263
83	Dave Ricard	—	1	247
84	Todd Johnson	—	1	242
85	Joseph Lehman	—	1	191
86	Randall Holt	—	1	189
87	Ted Wright	—	1	146
88	William Bolyard	—	1	113
89	William Figgins	—	1	78
90	Roger Indrebo	—	1	74
91	Tony Fehrenbach	—	1	40

Ranked by wells drilled in Whatcom 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 Whatcom County?

Richard Smith has drilled the most Whatcom County wells in the recent record — 416 since 2016, 423 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Whatcom County?

91 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Whatcom County; 22 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 Whatcom County?

The median drilled depth in Whatcom County is 78 ft, based on 8,279 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Whatcom County wells page.

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

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