Best well drillers in Skagit County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 69 drilling companies with wells on record in Skagit County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 3,735 logged wells in Washington State Department of Ecology well construction reports (records as of 2026-07-28). Every number links back to the public record.

69companies on record

22active since 2022

3,735wells in county record

#	Company	In Skagit Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Ralph Riggles	260	856	1,881
2	Brannon Hopke	150	645	1,852
3	Ryan Wilhonen	83	233	838
4	Brent Barker	38	105	249
5	Westin Halvorson	22	22	155
6	David Rutledge	14	66	1,174
7	Eugene Hitt	11	67	410
8	Mark Sawyer	9	38	331
9	Dale Westby	6	49	415
10	Jason Boyd	4	17	48
11	Brett Boulton	3	10	268
12	Michael Florence	3	4	174
13	Jerry Peterson	2	14	139
14	Wayne Prince	1	396	447
15	E Himebaugh	1	10	508
16	Gary Maze	1	1	209
17	Charles Moore	1	1	914
18	Gray Rich	1	1	262
19	Richard Miller	1	1	62
20	David Meyer	1	1	1,150
21	Greg Halvorson	—	158	302
22	Kyle Schaeffer	—	144	562
23	Gregory Halvorson	—	135	319
24	Curtis Isaacson	—	91	306
25	Theodore Rieckers	—	68	145
26	Roy Smith JR	—	65	251
27	Richard Spink	—	63	92
28	Allan Countryman	—	58	58
29	Wayne Logsdon	—	53	189
30	Dean Hayes SR	—	40	105
31	Jason Solvey	—	29	118
32	Bruce Fowler	—	28	52
33	Bill Clothier	—	24	1,700
34	Michael Mcadam	—	24	120
35	Steve Gilbert	—	23	60
36	Joseph Nunes	—	16	374
37	William Johns	—	16	123
38	Lynn Bartholomew	—	14	410
39	Self Self	—	13	216
40	Paul Anderson	—	12	1,384
41	David Deremer	—	12	614
42	Gerlof Boonstra	—	11	636
43	Lawrence Gosling	—	9	374
44	Edward Countryman	—	9	32
45	David Battell	—	7	53
46	Stephen Speelmon	—	7	25
47	William Bever	—	6	298
48	Bryan Van Weerdhuizen	—	6	243
49	Todd Johnson	—	6	240
50	Steven Staley	—	6	112
51	Irvin Westby	—	6	84
52	Tom Banta	—	6	29
53	Kenneth Engle	—	4	112
54	Nicolas Sample	—	3	543
55	Stanley Arnott	—	3	245
56	Don Stein	—	3	130
57	Kenneth Watkins	—	3	87
58	Martin Brown	—	3	55
59	Jimmy Mauldin	—	2	498
60	Michael Colbert	—	2	142
61	NA Unknown	—	2	139
62	Elijah Rutledge	—	1	54
63	William Munich	—	1	388
64	John Sullivan	—	1	267
65	Jock Harris	—	1	168
66	Felix Murphy	—	1	96
67	Lawrence Kulper	—	1	92
68	Herman Lehnart	—	1	87
69	Zon Axelsen	—	1	41

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

Ralph Riggles has drilled the most Skagit County wells in the recent record — 260 since 2016, 856 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Skagit County?

69 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Skagit County; 22 of them have drilled somewhere in Washington since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Skagit County?

The median drilled depth in Skagit County is 80 ft, based on 3,789 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Skagit County wells page.

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

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