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Best well drillers in Placer County, California

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 155 drilling companies with wells on record in Placer County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 15,553 logged wells in the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Well Completion Reports database (records as of 2026-08-14). Every number links back to the public record.

155companies on record
51active since 2022
15,553wells in county record
#CompanyIn Placer Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Peters Drilling And Pump Service 380 1,814 11,563
2 American Well Drilling And Pump Service 368 406 439
3 Gary C Tanko Well Drilling Inc. 342 4,734 12,022
4 Diamond Well Drilling Company Inc. 160 492 1,150
5 Goodell Well & Pump Service 25 52 342
6 Cascade Drilling L P 11 12 2,827
7 Bruce Mackay Pump & Well Service Inc. 10 33 260
8 Guardino Well Drilling Inc. 10 10 1,736
9 Cascade Drilling LP 9 17 826
10 Nor - Cal Pump & Well Drilling Inc. 9 9 248
11 Top Hat Well Drilling 9 9 31
12 Phifer Well Service 7 7 37
13 Sullivan Drilling Inc. 6 6 1,387
14 Gregg Drilling LLC 5 5 558
15 Wildrose Drilling LLC 4 4 102
16 Stonehouse Well Drilling 3 3 157
17 Triangle Well Drilling 2 25 2,894
18 Eaton Drilling Co. LLC 2 11 3,793
19 Jensen Kelin Drilling 2 2 94
20 Kleinfelder Inc. 2 2 54
21 Kile's Well Drilling 1 213 943
22 Tanko Gary C Well Drilling 1 104 284
23 Well Industries Inc. 1 6 558
24 Castle Construction & Well Drilling Inc. 1 2 142
25 American Construction And Supply Inc. 1 1 1,685
26 Gregory Drilling Incorporated 1 1 143
27 Kvilhaug Drilling & Pump Inc. 1 1 327
28 Mid State Pump And Drilling 1 1 74
29 Vannucci Technologies 1 1 66
30 Hedman Drilling 1 1 126
31 Pitcher Drilling Co. 1 1 1,232
32 Bfr Associates — 3,306 5,621
33 Wayne Drilling Co. — 861 1,113
34 Redhawk Drilling — 545 1,197
35 Wayne Environmental Drilling Company Inc. — 524 664
36 Mel Meyer — 338 101,127
37 Patten Well Drilling — 228 421
38 American Well Drilling — 193 307
39 J Field Drilling Co. — 149 275
40 D W Moore Well Drilling — 146 170
41 Allmon C T Development Co. — 95 153
42 Fox Loomis Incorporated — 79 225
43 Tahoe Pump & Drilling Inc. — 72 358
44 Beymer Well Service — 65 2,921
45 Signal Drilling Company — 55 8,301
46 G Gakin Well Drilling — 46 147
47 Starr Drilling And Pump Co. — 45 875
48 Cascade Drilling Inc. - California — 43 3,167
49 H T Ted Herr — 40 776
50 Bertram Drilling Inc. — 39 1,171
51 Preston Well Drilling — 34 698
52 General Development — 34 65
53 V J Mcgrew — 30 147
54 Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. — 28 4,828
55 R Wilder Gen Cont — 28 409
56 Woodward Drilling Company Inc. — 25 1,542
57 Frank P Conley — 24 218
58 Water Well Drilling Cont — 22 263
59 Bill Rambeau Pump & Well Drilling — 19 288
60 Paul Williams And Sons — 19 175
61 Wilder, R., Drilling Company — 18 1,089
62 Kearns-Rivard Well Drilling — 17 291
63 Tanko Bros Inc. — 16 2,617
64 Allen Drilling Co. — 16 1,295
65 Beylik Drilling & Pump Service — 16 1,267
66 ED Fields Water Well Drilling — 14 234
67 Kennedy, Bryant, Drilling Co. — 14 50
68 Sargent Drilling — 13 442
69 John Linn Drilling, Co. — 12 428
70 Fredrick Mark Pump & Supply Co. — 11 295
71 Weston E Dawson — 11 147
72 Fred W Porter & Sons — 11 105
73 Teg - Northern California Inc. — 11 27
74 Johnson Drilling Co. — 10 11,865
75 Robert Dawson Drilling & Pumps — 10 1,415
76 Alva E Morgan — 9 45
77 Castlio Drilling Co. — 9 29
78 Irwin Well Drilling — 8 1,906
79 Tanko Well Drilling — 8 3,311
80 Confluence Environmental Inc. — 8 65
81 Testamerica Drilling Corp — 8 378
82 Environmental West Drilling — 8 38
83 Seebeck M E — 7 567
84 Island Drilling — 7 221
85 Star Well Drilling & Pump Co. — 7 122
86 C & M Drilling Co. — 7 41
87 Mitchell Drilling Environmental Corp — 6 199
88 Blain & Imbach Well Drilling — 6 168
89 Robert Allen Nix Well Drilling — 5 373
90 Dicken's Drilling — 5 490
91 Ken Hickman Well Drilling — 5 29
92 Zim Industries Inc. Dba Bakersfield Well & Pump Co. — 4 1,716
93 Waters Backhoe & Dozer Service — 4 110
94 Valley Pump & Motor Works Inc. — 4 181
95 Allen Drilling & Equipment Co. — 4 311
96 Heer Nar S — 4 245
97 E E Luhdorff — 4 155
98 Scott Xxx PC Exploration Inc. — 4 154
99 Points West Drilling — 4 78
100 Maggiora Bros Drilling Inc. — 3 4,674
101 Layne Christensen Company — 3 2,362
102 Britton Exploration — 3 36
103 W D C Exploration & Wells — 3 2,421
104 Aufdenkamp Drilling Inc. — 3 2,330
105 Hunt Drilling Company Inc. — 3 1,213
106 Rockwell Drilling Co. — 3 244
107 Humboldt Drilling & Pump Co. — 3 131
108 Brown Brothers Drilling — 3 102
109 James W Imbach Well Drilling — 3 86
110 W E Blain — 3 82
111 Butte Pump Service — 3 26
112 Water-Tech Well Drilling — 2 665
113 Pambeau Pump & Well — 2 405
114 Olson's Plbg & Heating — 2 308
115 Layne-Western Co. Inc. — 2 255
116 American Well & Pump Service — 2 254
117 Steve's Pumps & Well Drilling Inc. — 2 162
118 Melvin L Lukins — 2 93
119 Trinity Source Group Inc. — 2 67
120 Ben Barrow Company — 2 49
121 Pollock's Drilling & Pump Service — 2 39
122 Big Valley Drilling & Exploration Co. — 2 32
123 Roadrunner Drilling & Pump Company Inc. — 1 205
124 Enloe Well Drilling — 1 279
125 Boart Longyear Company — 1 172
126 Drilling Services Inc. — 1 63
127 Bill Belknap — 1 2,758
128 Dunn Jack Inc. — 1 1,424
129 D Hedman & Co. — 1 1,305
130 Arrow Well Drilling — 1 1,202
131 Beaman & Son Pump Co. — 1 990
132 Western Well Drilling Co. Ltd — 1 842
133 Woods Well Drilling — 1 755
134 All Well Abandonment — 1 607
135 Sutter Pump Works — 1 449
136 Tom Hunt Drilling Co. — 1 418
137 Resonantsonic International Inc. — 1 397
138 Flynn Well Drilling — 1 252
139 Harris A J Co. — 1 239
140 Cranmer & Ellis Water Well Drillers — 1 197
141 Robert Garcia Well & Pump Co. — 1 192
142 American River Well Drilling — 1 180
143 Thomas E Mccaw Well Drilling — 1 141
144 Taylor & Taber Drillers — 1 139
145 Allen's Drilling & Pump Service — 1 134
146 W L Kirchgater — 1 98
147 Stang Hydronics Inc. — 1 56
148 Westex — 1 40
149 Keener Exploration Drilling Co. — 1 37
150 William B Zuver — 1 37
151 B & F Drilling — 1 35
152 Levy Matthews & Son — 1 35
153 North State Well & Pump — 1 30
154 Nor-Cal Pump & Well Service — 1 26
155 Gary D Lowe — 1 25

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

Peters Drilling And Pump Service has drilled the most Placer County wells in the recent record — 380 since 2016, 1,814 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Placer County?

155 companies in the DWR record have drilled wells in Placer County; 51 of them have drilled somewhere in California since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Placer County?

The median drilled depth in Placer County is 200 ft, based on 18,726 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Placer County wells page.

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

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