Best well drillers in St. Louis County, Missouri

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 63 drilling companies with wells on record in St. Louis County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,654 logged wells in the Missouri Department of Natural Resources water well database (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to the public record.

63companies on record

15active since 2022

1,654wells in county record

#	Company	In St. Louis Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Alan Burgess	50	50	656
2	Daniel Flynn	49	211	5,100
3	Joshua Lavy	30	30	654
4	Ron Heath	26	183	2,027
5	Jason Boyce	24	24	1,185
6	David Guzy	23	25	1,589
7	Jeff Hatfield	23	23	261
8	Robert Bussa	18	31	370
9	Brad Lavy	15	15	396
10	Gerald Buechting	13	61	630
11	Diane Schroepfer-Kline	9	34	1,139
12	Kevin Pelton	6	10	395
13	Gregory Bonnot	5	20	6,715
14	David Weatherford	5	5	162
15	Shane Mcmenamy	3	6	90
16	Jacob Buechting	2	2	156
17	Dean Shocklee	2	2	65
18	Stevie Crawford	1	53	1,063
19	Joseph Foppe	1	4	29
20	Sam Tripp	1	1	381
21	Dominique Durbin	1	1	131
22	Earl W Buechting	—	171	1,576
23	Roger Brewington	—	167	441
24	Alfred Hampton Miller	—	64	347
25	Eddy Clark	—	61	368
26	Glenn Williams	—	49	358
27	Orville Schroepfer	—	45	2,221
28	Bob J Goss	—	41	366
29	Arthur Jennewein	—	38	218
30	Ross Crum	—	37	282
31	Robert Wideman	—	34	1,228
32	Jason Grantham	—	15	324
33	Johnny Patterson	—	13	869
34	Donald Brockmeier	—	13	69
35	Leslie Williams	—	12	87
36	Gary D Thompson	—	10	406
37	Fairs E Dalton	—	10	145
38	Dale E Lewis	—	8	381
39	Douglas Montgomery	—	7	70
40	Lesley Hayes	—	7	40
41	Richard David Henry	—	5	2,104
42	Mark Lavy	—	5	456
43	Ray Pelton	—	5	162
44	Philip Luther	—	5	106
45	Lindell Lindsey	—	5	32
46	Darrell Schroepfer	—	4	84
47	Alfred Howard Miller	—	4	26
48	Marshall Eye JR	—	3	729
49	Derrick Palmer	—	3	166
50	Tim R Hampton	—	3	81
51	Stephen Young	—	3	34
52	W F Schnell	—	2	1,512
53	Willie Patterson	—	2	493
54	William Warth	—	2	364
55	Wayne Brautigam	—	2	52
56	Lloyd Moreland	—	1	2,332
57	Norman Pelton	—	1	691
58	Charles Lock	—	1	514
59	Colby Scott	—	1	479
60	Kenneth Boessen	—	1	340
61	Carl Pelton	—	1	139
62	Brian Keith Bauer	—	1	96
63	Derrick Jones	—	1	96

Ranked by wells drilled in St. Louis 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 St. Louis County?

Alan Burgess has drilled the most St. Louis County wells in the recent record — 50 since 2016, 50 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in St. Louis County?

63 companies in the MoDNR record have drilled wells in St. Louis County; 15 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 St. Louis County?

The median drilled depth in St. Louis County is 445 ft, based on 1,724 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the St. Louis County wells page.

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

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