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Best well drillers in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 61 drilling companies with wells on record in Cape Girardeau County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,233 logged wells in the Missouri Department of Natural Resources water well database (records as of 2026-08-21). Every number links back to the public record.

61companies on record
21active since 2022
2,233wells in county record
#CompanyIn Cape Girardeau Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Gary Cook 137 415 1,170
2 Shane Crites 71 71 237
3 Todd Robinson 58 193 678
4 Mike Callaway 43 122 243
5 Tharon Cook 37 37 96
6 Michael Mcdermott 15 33 37
7 John Abner 13 71 1,971
8 William Ward 11 72 812
9 Jason Byrd 9 11 352
10 Amy Nichols 9 9 610
11 Charles Allred 5 5 215
12 William Scott Burge 4 33 901
13 Adam Hemby 2 2 104
14 Fred Brown 1 94 1,180
15 William Burge 1 16 668
16 James Bell JR 1 13 237
17 Rodney Chad Wallace 1 8 165
18 Daniel Flynn 1 7 5,100
19 Philip Luther 1 3 106
20 Shane Mcmenamy 1 1 90
21 Jimmy Statler — 113 413
22 Stanley Grantham — 109 499
23 Wayne Johnson — 102 454
24 Douglas Grantham — 76 219
25 Earl W Buechting — 68 1,576
26 Arnold Robinson — 68 406
27 Matthew Heob — 67 188
28 Donald Smith — 65 184
29 John Byrd — 51 812
30 Oscar C Griffin — 39 84
31 Ronald Clark — 33 40
32 Christopher Rhodes — 28 547
33 Donald Clayton — 25 889
34 Bobby Clark — 24 37
35 George Mann — 19 3,209
36 John Nichols — 19 463
37 Jason Grantham — 16 324
38 Richard Brewington — 14 51
39 Wilbert J Hacker — 12 72
40 Arthur Brashear — 9 350
41 Joseph Foppe — 9 29
42 Robert Clark — 8 1,895
43 Dennis Long JR — 6 127
44 Wilbur Sutton — 6 69
45 Bobby Bell — 5 75
46 Richard Cooper — 4 89
47 William Warth — 3 364
48 Roger Brewington — 2 441
49 Steve Turnbeaugh — 2 422
50 Roger K Bollinger — 2 275
51 Chad Engram — 2 102
52 Paul Fancher — 2 50
53 Gary Spradling — 1 1,102
54 David Shelby — 1 1,792
55 Ron Heath — 1 2,027
56 Gregory Clark — 1 1,222
57 Clinton Harper — 1 359
58 Charles Todd — 1 145
59 Mark Hunsaker — 1 77
60 Douglas Montgomery — 1 70
61 Lesley Hayes — 1 40

Ranked by wells drilled in Cape Girardeau County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full MoDNR 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 Cape Girardeau County?

Gary Cook has drilled the most Cape Girardeau County wells in the recent record — 137 since 2016, 415 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Cape Girardeau County?

61 companies in the MoDNR record have drilled wells in Cape Girardeau County; 21 of them have drilled somewhere in Missouri since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Cape Girardeau County?

The median drilled depth in Cape Girardeau County is 324 ft, based on 2,351 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Cape Girardeau County wells page.

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

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