Best well drillers in Newton County, Missouri
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 70 drilling companies with wells on record in Newton County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 5,282 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.
| # | Company | In Newton Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larry Gulick | 137 | 178 | 1,412 |
| 2 | Karl Jacobs | 135 | 757 | 1,358 |
| 3 | Timothy Stokes | 69 | 76 | 1,358 |
| 4 | Jeremy Mccarthy | 63 | 63 | 3,051 |
| 5 | Eugene Just | 62 | 123 | 704 |
| 6 | Christopher Demery | 49 | 52 | 75 |
| 7 | James Mallonee | 46 | 61 | 1,180 |
| 8 | G Dale Gulick | 23 | 70 | 1,097 |
| 9 | Benjamin Hauser | 17 | 24 | 69 |
| 10 | Mark Mccullough | 13 | 15 | 605 |
| 11 | Douglas Luther | 11 | 13 | 35 |
| 12 | Norman Houston | 8 | 421 | 757 |
| 13 | Thomas Gordon | 8 | 35 | 192 |
| 14 | Richard Linebaugh | 8 | 11 | 422 |
| 15 | Jamie Wicker | 7 | 7 | 274 |
| 16 | Wendell Martin | 4 | 42 | 383 |
| 17 | Melvin Daugherty | 3 | 119 | 270 |
| 18 | Kurtis Jolander | 3 | 63 | 539 |
| 19 | Andrew Harper | 3 | 9 | 318 |
| 20 | Kevin Rose | 2 | 27 | 87 |
| 21 | Charles Heckert | 2 | 4 | 42 |
| 22 | Gary Sisk | 2 | 2 | 266 |
| 23 | Greg Evans | 1 | 130 | 3,756 |
| 24 | Keith Snow | 1 | 116 | 181 |
| 25 | Nathan Aaron Wilson | 1 | 11 | 1,061 |
| 26 | Thomas Coffman | 1 | 8 | 1,342 |
| 27 | John Geller | — | 1,141 | 2,275 |
| 28 | Eugene Cantrell | — | 300 | 712 |
| 29 | Justin Houston | — | 250 | 480 |
| 30 | Larry Howland | — | 238 | 387 |
| 31 | Dale Lett | — | 220 | 430 |
| 32 | Frank Brodie | — | 220 | 418 |
| 33 | Grover Daugherty | — | 115 | 248 |
| 34 | James Stuart | — | 77 | 148 |
| 35 | H Jean Tichenor | — | 42 | 273 |
| 36 | Gregory Demery | — | 41 | 55 |
| 37 | Carry Joe Tichenor | — | 35 | 128 |
| 38 | John Schnell | — | 20 | 464 |
| 39 | Samuel D Montgomery | — | 18 | 25 |
| 40 | Jesse Yoakum | — | 17 | 692 |
| 41 | Valerie Schnell | — | 13 | 64 |
| 42 | Lloyd Evans | — | 12 | 4,237 |
| 43 | William Schnell | — | 11 | 188 |
| 44 | Brian Keith Bauer | — | 11 | 96 |
| 45 | Clinton Harper | — | 9 | 359 |
| 46 | Howard Trower | — | 8 | 730 |
| 47 | Kenneth Broadaway | — | 8 | 296 |
| 48 | John Von Holt | — | 5 | 33 |
| 49 | Adam Baker | — | 4 | 306 |
| 50 | Clifford King | — | 4 | 228 |
| 51 | Tommy Schnell | — | 3 | 1,900 |
| 52 | Curt Wilson | — | 2 | 2,074 |
| 53 | John Jasper | — | 2 | 353 |
| 54 | Steven Goins | — | 2 | 70 |
| 55 | Verne Luther | — | 2 | 43 |
| 56 | Timothy Grabher | — | 1 | 3,032 |
| 57 | Ryan Choate | — | 1 | 759 |
| 58 | Robert Clark | — | 1 | 1,895 |
| 59 | Robert Mcelwain | — | 1 | 553 |
| 60 | Colby Scott | — | 1 | 479 |
| 61 | Mark Lavy | — | 1 | 456 |
| 62 | Paul Wicker | — | 1 | 241 |
| 63 | Myrl Bowler | — | 1 | 113 |
| 64 | Philip Luther | — | 1 | 106 |
| 65 | Dustin Clark | — | 1 | 104 |
| 66 | A Brent Marret | — | 1 | 59 |
| 67 | Ronald Clark | — | 1 | 40 |
| 68 | Unpermitted Driller | — | 1 | 39 |
| 69 | Richard Martin | — | 1 | 36 |
| 70 | Bryan Inmon | — | 1 | 32 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Newton 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 Newton County?
Larry Gulick has drilled the most Newton County wells in the recent record — 137 since 2016, 178 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Newton County?
70 companies in the MoDNR record have drilled wells in Newton County; 22 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 Newton County?
The median drilled depth in Newton County is 450 ft, based on 5,458 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Newton County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Newton County wells page.
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