Best well drillers in Whitman County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 75 drilling companies with wells on record in Whitman County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 907 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.

75companies on record

29active since 2022

907wells in county record

#	Company	In Whitman Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Brett Uhlenkott	96	146	307
2	Eric Forsmann	72	80	156
3	Caleb Forsmann	40	40	64
4	James Hickam	27	30	598
5	Brian Mosset	7	21	2,318
6	Todd Lively	6	15	2,056
7	Aidan Gemmell	6	6	84
8	Jim Mcleslie	4	13	397
9	Troy Tarbert	3	8	1,147
10	Andrew Olson	2	2	150
11	Ted Wright	1	141	146
12	Roger Witt	1	102	175
13	Leonard Martel	1	34	491
14	Jose Rojas	1	1	273
15	Pedro Gama Valladares	1	1	109
16	Randy Sharratt	1	1	77
17	Justin Egeland	1	1	74
18	Forest Hoopes	1	1	186
19	Colby Morris	1	1	53
20	Joshua Richardson	1	1	44
21	Gray Rich	1	1	262
22	William Uhlenkott	—	36	53
23	Tim Uhlenkott	—	28	171
24	George Burns	—	24	84
25	W Detray	—	23	50
26	Louie Hanner	—	15	365
27	James Doyle	—	13	542
28	David Warburton	—	11	37
29	Joseph Booth JR	—	10	790
30	Douglas Lane	—	8	675
31	Brad Forman	—	7	160
32	Don Anderson	—	5	1,392
33	Theodore Rieckers	—	5	828
34	NA Unknown	—	5	140
35	Daryl Bartholomew	—	4	500
36	Michael Robinson	—	3	817
37	Mark Nail	—	3	53
38	Benson Carpenter	—	3	1,225
39	Keith Vermillion	—	3	629
40	Brady Voth	—	3	612
41	Gary Bartholomew	—	3	540
42	Lynn Bartholomew	—	3	439
43	Bart Moorehead	—	3	221
44	Forrest Tennant	—	3	189
45	Roger Kelly	—	3	148
46	Edmund Morgan	—	3	69
47	Thomas Richardson	—	2	123
48	Bill Clothier	—	2	1,952
49	Kenneth Witham	—	2	864
50	Jim Hansen	—	2	352
51	W Close JR	—	2	145
52	Alex Vermillion	—	1	955
53	David Rutledge	—	1	1,193
54	Kenneth Hoyer	—	1	66
55	Willie Williams	—	1	985
56	Larry Webley	—	1	325
57	Jason Beckham	—	1	78
58	Daniel Oconnell	—	1	754
59	Gerald Johnson	—	1	605
60	James Noonan JR	—	1	528
61	Kenneth Kane	—	1	467
62	Richard Braun	—	1	387
63	Jeffrey Sharp	—	1	222
64	Wayne Logsdon	—	1	195
65	Felix Murphy	—	1	190
66	Robert Dehle	—	1	109
67	Charles Christensen JR	—	1	93
68	Boyd Wood	—	1	73
69	Anthony Kraut	—	1	71
70	Russell Frachiseur	—	1	67
71	Michael Halterman	—	1	58
72	Dennis Huhn	—	1	47
73	Arnold Holman	—	1	30
74	Robert Dobush	—	1	29
75	Larry Burd	—	1	29

Ranked by wells drilled in Whitman 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 Whitman County?

Brett Uhlenkott has drilled the most Whitman County wells in the recent record — 96 since 2016, 146 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Whitman County?

75 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Whitman County; 29 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 Whitman County?

The median drilled depth in Whitman County is 200 ft, based on 1,317 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Whitman County wells page.

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

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