Best well drillers in Whatcom County, Washington

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 70 drilling companies with wells on record in Whatcom County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 4,944 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.

70companies on record

21active since 2022

4,944wells in county record

#	Company	In Whatcom Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Richard Smith	416	417	422
2	David Rutledge	177	280	1,174
3	Michael Florence	105	169	174
4	Brett Boulton	99	257	268
5	Brannon Hopke	48	387	1,852
6	Ryan Wilhonen	48	151	838
7	Ralph Riggles	32	135	1,881
8	Jerry Peterson	23	125	139
9	Bill Clothier	2	1,653	1,700
10	Paul Anderson	2	2	1,384
11	Matthew Call	2	2	250
12	Richard Miller	2	2	62
13	Des Woods	1	102	102
14	Kyle Schaeffer	1	91	562
15	Brent Barker	1	8	249
16	Jason Boyd	1	8	48
17	Jeremy Bach	1	1	739
18	Alex Kerslake	1	1	186
19	Westin Halvorson	1	1	155
20	Dale Westby	1	1	415
21	Lee Anderson	1	1	61
22	Bryan Van Weerdhuizen	—	235	243
23	Gerald Bezona	—	122	122
24	Felix Murphy	—	95	96
25	Herman Lehnart	—	84	87
26	Curtis Isaacson	—	74	306
27	Roy Smith JR	—	60	251
28	Wayne Logsdon	—	55	189
29	Bryan Martinson	—	44	44
30	Delbert Livermore	—	37	37
31	David Deremer	—	36	614
32	Cristhian Hernandez-Mendez	—	36	38
33	Michael Mcadam	—	30	120
34	Jason Solvey	—	30	118
35	Jeff Kimbrough	—	30	30
36	Richard Spink	—	26	92
37	Theodore Rieckers	—	17	145
38	Elijah Rutledge	—	15	54
39	Dean Hayes SR	—	15	105
40	Martin Brown	—	15	55
41	Lynn Bartholomew	—	13	410
42	Steve Gilbert	—	13	60
43	Self Self	—	9	216
44	Wayne Prince	—	7	447
45	Tom Banta	—	7	29
46	Stephen Speelmon	—	7	25
47	Lewis Adolph JR	—	4	82
48	Michael Colbert	—	3	142
49	Steven Staley	—	3	112
50	Robert Carper	—	3	51
51	Joseph Nunes	—	2	374
52	Lawrence Gosling	—	2	374
53	Gregory Halvorson	—	2	319
54	NA Unknown	—	2	139
55	Bruce Fowler	—	2	52
56	John Arfman	—	1	725
57	Willie Williams	—	1	534
58	Mark Sawyer	—	1	331
59	Gerlof Boonstra	—	1	636
60	Brady Voth	—	1	607
61	Greg Halvorson	—	1	302
62	Dave Ricard	—	1	242
63	Todd Johnson	—	1	240
64	Randall Holt	—	1	162
65	Ted Wright	—	1	139
66	Jerry Crabtree	—	1	114
67	William Bolyard	—	1	108
68	Kenneth Watkins	—	1	87
69	Joseph Lehman	—	1	74
70	Tony Fehrenbach	—	1	33

Ranked by wells drilled in Whatcom 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 Whatcom County?

Richard Smith has drilled the most Whatcom County wells in the recent record — 416 since 2016, 417 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Whatcom County?

70 companies in the Ecology record have drilled wells in Whatcom County; 21 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 Whatcom County?

The median drilled depth in Whatcom County is 72 ft, based on 4,994 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Whatcom County wells page.

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

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