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Best well drillers in Forest County, Wisconsin
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 77 drilling companies with wells
on record in Forest County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 3,472 logged
wells in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Groundwater Retrieval Network (GRN) well-construction records (records as of 2026-08-14). Every number links back to
the public record.
77companies on record
27active since 2022
3,472wells in county record
| # | Company | In Forest Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Rhinelander Well Drilling Inc. | 136 | 635 | 5,196 |
| 2 | T & T Well Drilling & Pump Service | 125 | 359 | 1,347 |
| 3 | Nehls & Webster Well Drilling | 94 | 285 | 2,122 |
| 4 | Jelinek Well Drilling Inc. | 85 | 268 | 5,674 |
| 5 | Luisier Well Drilling Inc. | 77 | 394 | 12,107 |
| 6 | Drews Well Drilling Inc. | 67 | 67 | 1,162 |
| 7 | Hedberg W D/Ecs Holdings LLC | 38 | 76 | 2,116 |
| 8 | Morin, Douglas J | 36 | 36 | 166 |
| 9 | Van DE Yacht Leo Well Drilling Inc. | 15 | 34 | 8,998 |
| 10 | Wranik, Thomas F | 14 | 15 | 708 |
| 11 | Hartman Well Drilling & Pump Services Inc. | 13 | 13 | 404 |
| 12 | Douglas J Morin | 12 | 177 | 1,041 |
| 13 | Drill Baby Drill LLC | 7 | 7 | 179 |
| 14 | Arneson Well Drilling LLC | 4 | 4 | 159 |
| 15 | Kleiman, Erik P | 4 | 4 | 48 |
| 16 | Kleiman Pump & Well Drilling Inc. | 3 | 72 | 962 |
| 17 | Weslow Water Systems Inc. | 3 | 8 | 1,714 |
| 18 | Maiden Lake Plumbing LLC | 3 | 5 | 27 |
| 19 | Thomas F Wranik | 2 | 60 | 2,301 |
| 20 | Hintzke Well Drilling Inc. | 2 | 8 | 4,365 |
| 21 | Vetter, William | 2 | 2 | 86 |
| 22 | Bradley M Hartman | 1 | 15 | 640 |
| 23 | Ground Source Inc. | 1 | 6 | 2,237 |
| 24 | Shawano Well Drilling Inc. | 1 | 3 | 3,990 |
| 25 | Kenneth Dama | 1 | 2 | 30 |
| 26 | Zdroik Well Drilling And Pump Services, LLC | 1 | 1 | 129 |
| 27 | Cooper, Gerald L | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| 28 | Hanser, Elijah J | 1 | 1 | 171 |
| 29 | Wranik Thomas F Well Drilling Inc. | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| 30 | Koeppel Phil Well Drlg LLC | — | 120 | 1,621 |
| 31 | Philip J Koeppel | — | 108 | 1,316 |
| 32 | Tipler Well Drilling Inc. | — | 94 | 482 |
| 33 | Nehls @ Webster Well Drilling | — | 92 | 589 |
| 34 | Webster Well Drilling Inc. | — | 51 | 3,928 |
| 35 | Noble F Jones | — | 49 | 303 |
| 36 | Timothy William Harnois | — | 42 | 152 |
| 37 | T & T Well Drilling | — | 38 | 150 |
| 38 | Tipler Well @ Pump | — | 30 | 288 |
| 39 | Allen D Tamm | — | 27 | 90 |
| 40 | Tipler Well And Pump | — | 23 | 159 |
| 41 | Koeppel Philip J | — | 21 | 321 |
| 42 | Jereme Romitti | — | 20 | 417 |
| 43 | Peter Romitti JR | — | 20 | 367 |
| 44 | Richard E Hedberg | — | 18 | 527 |
| 45 | Lloyd J Lefeber | — | 18 | 225 |
| 46 | Maurice Johnson | — | 13 | 251 |
| 47 | Jelinek David C | — | 11 | 224 |
| 48 | Bernard Young | — | 10 | 849 |
| 49 | Jones Noble F | — | 10 | 157 |
| 50 | Morin@Johnson Well Drilling | — | 10 | 124 |
| 51 | Van DE Yacht Bill Wtr Well & Specia | — | 7 | 3,200 |
| 52 | Edward J Drews | — | 7 | 2,070 |
| 53 | Raymond Young JR | — | 6 | 1,853 |
| 54 | Paul H Webster | — | 6 | 54 |
| 55 | Arthur (Butch) P Simac | — | 5 | 77 |
| 56 | Romitti JR Peter | — | 5 | 64 |
| 57 | Richardson Well Drilling Inc. | — | 4 | 1,593 |
| 58 | Kleiman Pump @ Well Drilling Inc. | — | 4 | 373 |
| 59 | David C Jelinek | — | 4 | 200 |
| 60 | Johnson Maurice | — | 4 | 98 |
| 61 | Arthur P Simac | — | 4 | 90 |
| 62 | Richardson WD/Ertl Enterprises Inc. | — | 3 | 3,556 |
| 63 | Jesse W Brunner | — | 3 | 2,585 |
| 64 | C T W Corp | — | 3 | 149 |
| 65 | Eric Schuette | — | 3 | 86 |
| 66 | Romitti, Jereme | — | 3 | 33 |
| 67 | Geiger Gerald V | — | 3 | 25 |
| 68 | Dillenburg Daniel | — | 2 | 276 |
| 69 | Young Bernard | — | 2 | 217 |
| 70 | Edwin Lefeber | — | 2 | 73 |
| 71 | John A Gabriel | — | 2 | 47 |
| 72 | Sam's Well Drilling Inc. | — | 1 | 21,895 |
| 73 | Hanser Bill Well & Pump Inc. | — | 1 | 1,104 |
| 74 | Drews Edward J | — | 1 | 140 |
| 75 | Young JR Raymond | — | 1 | 111 |
| 76 | Nehls & Webster WD Inc. /Nokomis Div | — | 1 | 91 |
| 77 | Robert Webster | — | 1 | 86 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Forest County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full WI DNR
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 Forest County?
Rhinelander Well Drilling Inc. has drilled the most Forest County wells in the recent record — 136 since 2016, 635 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Forest County?
77 companies in the WI DNR record have drilled wells in Forest County; 27 of them have drilled somewhere in Wisconsin since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
How deep is a typical well in Forest County?
The median drilled depth in Forest County is 66 ft, based on 5,153 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Forest County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Forest County wells page.
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