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Best well drillers in Smith County, Kansas

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 39 drilling companies with wells on record in Smith County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 439 logged wells in the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) WWC-5 water well records database (records as of 2026-09-22). Every number links back to the public record.

39companies on record
17active since 2022
439wells in county record
#CompanyIn Smith Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Ground Water Development 18 18 61
2 Watson Well Drilling 17 91 302
3 Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, Inc. 7 13 1,664
4 Stepbrothers Water Drlg 5 5 44
5 Associated Drilling, Inc. 4 4 1,922
6 Downey Drlg #748 4 4 189
7 Groundwater Development Company 3 3 59
8 Clarke Well And Equipment, Inc. 2 5 4,014
9 Karst Water Well Drlg 2 2 330
10 Downey Drilling, Inc. 2 2 370
11 Rgn Company, Inc. 2 2 41
12 Bushell Water Well Service 2 2 87
13 T And T Water Well Drilling 2 2 68
14 Holdrege Well Service 1 1 77
15 Cline Drilling 1 1 26
16 Leroy Maruhn Well Drilling, Inc. 82 279
17 Maruhn Well Drilling, Inc. 40 127
18 Chas. Sargent Irrigation Co., Inc. 27 236
19 D & D Service 19 52
20 Andy Anderson Drilling 16 882
21 D & L Drilling Co. 15 96
22 Rainey Water Well 14 134
23 William J. Deer Drilling 11 42
24 Rosencrantz-Bemis Enterprises, Inc. 10 11,621
25 Gottschalk Well Drilling 10 78
26 Darrell D. Redinger Drilling & Trenching 7 79
27 Yellow Jacket Drilling 6 144
28 Layne-Christensen Co. 5 1,076
29 Redinger Well Service 5 84
30 Melvin B. Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, Inc. 5 481
31 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, Inc. 2 1,862
32 Sargent Drilling 2 168
33 Gottschalk Water Well Drilling 2 57
34 Miller Drilling 1 7,473
35 Woofter Pump & Well, Inc. 1 1,939
36 Tyler Water Well, Inc. 1 304
37 Dale Shuck Drilling Co. 1 109
38 Paul Ott Enterprises 1 66
39 P & J Well Drilling 1 26

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

Ground Water Development has drilled the most Smith County wells in the recent record — 18 since 2016, 18 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Smith County?

39 companies in the KGS record have drilled wells in Smith County; 17 of them have drilled somewhere in Kansas since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Smith County?

The median drilled depth in Smith County is 60 ft, based on 475 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Smith County wells page.

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

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