Best well drillers in Thurston County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 126 drilling companies with wells on record in Thurston County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 8,790 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.

126companies on record

39active since 2022

8,790wells in county record

#	Company	In Thurston Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Daniel Carpenter	350	418	533
2	Christopher Jones	326	854	3,742
3	Joshua Koepp	169	306	1,327
4	Robert Laymon	157	375	965
5	Jess Swanson	107	107	107
6	Mark Wiese	94	177	1,760
7	Rogeray Phythian	76	1,208	2,809
8	Michael Cyrier	58	189	1,083
9	Tim Maxey	20	734	760
10	Cory Johnson	17	17	112
11	Daniel King	16	25	780
12	Eric Brasher	16	16	140
13	Jacob Hansen	14	15	146
14	Rick Swanson	13	398	409
15	Terry Gavin	12	600	1,227
16	Matthew Call	12	17	250
17	James Johnson	12	12	68
18	Chris Gregory	9	9	180
19	Darrell Feavel	7	15	226
20	Trent Burrell	5	5	27
21	John Brazeau	4	4	180
22	Lance Sabey	4	4	168
23	Gray Rich	3	3	262
24	John Arfman	2	17	725
25	Billy Dodge	2	6	90
26	Robert Carper	1	4	51
27	Austin Gee	1	1	275
28	Joseph Dunkin	1	1	255
29	Arthur Doughty	—	329	329
30	Lanny Carpenter	—	167	248
31	David Deremer	—	166	614
32	Ronald Bornmann	—	160	763
33	Rick Vernon	—	156	416
34	Chris Town	—	140	318
35	George Clovis	—	136	140
36	Brandon Hicks	—	135	337
37	Earl Hilliker	—	134	445
38	Thomas Needham	—	126	132
39	Shane Averette	—	110	452
40	Kelly Edwards	—	109	207
41	Ronald Jones	—	85	323
42	Corbie Chance	—	84	103
43	ED Nelson	—	83	380
44	Edwin King	—	71	334
45	Jeffrey Gavin	—	63	88
46	Jeremy Palin	—	62	114
47	Keith Kincy	—	57	60
48	Mark Nelson	—	55	279
49	Daniel Rayton	—	52	665
50	Rick Wanzer	—	48	51
51	Dave Kincy	—	45	45
52	Jason Waldrop	—	43	188
53	Kevin Mckenna	—	42	256
54	Gerald Bluhm	—	37	134
55	Jeff Gavin	—	36	65
56	Brigham Ward	—	28	264
57	David Scoggins	—	27	55
58	Lynn Bartholomew	—	25	410
59	Forrest Chance	—	24	29
60	Curtis King	—	23	111
61	Charles Smith	—	22	339
62	Terry Burns	—	22	229
63	Dwane Knapp	—	20	472
64	Kenneth Williams	—	16	451
65	Corbie Chance II	—	16	38
66	Thomas Craney	—	14	296
67	David Sullivan SR	—	14	148
68	William Dover	—	14	86
69	Carl Bauer	—	14	60
70	Roger Oelke	—	13	244
71	NA Unknown	—	12	139
72	William Neal Iii	—	12	27
73	Martin Brown	—	11	55
74	Roy Mudge	—	11	53
75	Willie Williams	—	9	534
76	Ronnie King	—	9	213
77	Randall Holt	—	9	162
78	James ST Pierre	—	9	75
79	Tom Markle	—	9	44
80	Donald Read JR	—	8	338
81	William Lee	—	7	190
82	Marvin Fengel	—	7	132
83	William Halbert	—	7	86
84	James Stair	—	7	57
85	Richard Braun	—	7	39
86	Dave Charon	—	6	79
87	Self Self	—	6	216
88	Joshua Hail	—	6	27
89	Charles Whisnant	—	6	26
90	Richard Deremer II	—	5	217
91	Lyle Pitts	—	4	341
92	Nicolas Sample	—	4	543
93	Thomas Preheim	—	4	104
94	Jeffrey Hendrickson	—	4	76
95	John Williams	—	4	28
96	Eric Hansen	—	3	55
97	Lawrence Johnson	—	3	381
98	James Trepanier	—	3	145
99	Timothy Lapham	—	2	872
100	Richard Miller	—	2	62
101	Jon Ricard JR	—	2	1,527
102	Kenneth Witham	—	2	524
103	Randy Harris	—	2	184
104	Michael Mitchell	—	2	81
105	Michael Branklin	—	2	64
106	ED Moerke	—	2	50
107	Tony Fehrenbach	—	2	33
108	David Nakano	—	2	31
109	Richard Smith	—	1	422
110	Brett Phythian	—	1	3,428
111	Clayton Pitts	—	1	436
112	Gordon Millar	—	1	199
113	E Himebaugh	—	1	508
114	Louis Rychlik	—	1	721
115	Nicholas Ernst	—	1	429
116	Donald Duckworth	—	1	235
117	Larry Olsen	—	1	203
118	Ronald Duckworth	—	1	168
119	Charles Lantau	—	1	150
120	Steven Saenz	—	1	67
121	Shawn Beebe	—	1	48
122	Edwin Brown	—	1	40
123	Glen Maddox	—	1	36
124	Myrl Hancock	—	1	31
125	Stevan Butler	—	1	30
126	Thomas Dannison JR	—	1	26

Ranked by wells drilled in Thurston 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 Thurston County?

Daniel Carpenter has drilled the most Thurston County wells in the recent record — 350 since 2016, 418 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Thurston County?

126 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Thurston County; 39 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 Thurston County?

The median drilled depth in Thurston County is 100 ft, based on 9,046 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Thurston County wells page.

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

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