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Best well drillers in Ripley County, Missouri

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 60 drilling companies with wells on record in Ripley County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 923 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.

60companies on record
23active since 2022
923wells in county record
#CompanyIn Ripley Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Curtis Sanders 69 76 294
2 William Ward 38 83 812
3 Luke Woolsey 28 33 1,078
4 Bobby Price 16 104 1,144
5 Randy Foster 14 53 898
6 Richard Burton 6 34 958
7 J Jerome Sollis 4 63 394
8 Billy Sullinger 4 23 28
9 John Michael Sollis 4 4 45
10 Clinton Buckhanan 4 4 35
11 William Scott Burge 3 4 901
12 David Trent 3 3 383
13 James Hagger 2 11 366
14 Steven Reddish 2 5 25
15 Shannon Jones 1 14 45
16 Michael Woolsey 1 3 416
17 Eric Hicks 1 1 104
18 Forrest Jarvis 1 1 150
19 Russell Albert 1 1 48
20 Dean Shocklee 1 1 64
21 Rickey 'harold' Cooper 1 1 1,013
22 Christopher Rhodes — 67 547
23 Roger K Bollinger — 51 275
24 Clinton Madison — 41 57
25 Carl Foster — 38 70
26 Gary Foster — 37 1,959
27 Thomas Reddish — 35 66
28 William Carlson — 33 687
29 Ronald Mcgrew — 22 161
30 Dennis Long JR — 15 127
31 Greg Gonzalez — 10 251
32 James Douglas — 4 376
33 Bobby Dillard — 4 90
34 Stephen Foster — 4 26
35 Rex Trent — 3 837
36 Darren Belcher — 3 255
37 Donald Parkin — 3 87
38 Danny Hunsaker — 3 84
39 Clinton Mahan — 2 897
40 Douglas Luther — 2 35
41 Ray Dillard — 2 48
42 Jeff Thomas — 2 46
43 Alan Sollis — 2 40
44 Richard Gonzalez — 2 37
45 Gary Cook — 1 1,170
46 Andrew Harper — 1 318
47 William Burge — 1 668
48 Daniel Flynn — 1 5,100
49 John Geller — 1 2,275
50 Steve Turnbeaugh — 1 422
51 Arnold Robinson — 1 406
52 Bob Kirkland — 1 406
53 Melvin Daugherty — 1 270
54 Wilkie Russom — 1 198
55 Curtis Hargrove — 1 187
56 Mark Hunsaker — 1 77
57 Lesley Hayes — 1 40
58 Thomas Woolard — 1 37
59 Owner Installed — 1 34
60 Jerry L Parkin — 1 31

Ranked by wells drilled in Ripley 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 Ripley County?

Curtis Sanders has drilled the most Ripley County wells in the recent record — 69 since 2016, 76 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Ripley County?

60 companies in the MoDNR record have drilled wells in Ripley County; 23 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 Ripley County?

The median drilled depth in Ripley County is 210 ft, based on 982 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Ripley County wells page.

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

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