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Best well drillers in Gaston County, North Carolina

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 39 drilling companies with wells on record in Gaston County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 862 logged wells in well construction records (Form GW-1) filed with NC DEQ's Division of Water Resources, together with the USGS National Water Information System groundwater inventory (records as of 2026-10-12). Every number links back to the public record.

39companies on record
38active since 2022
862wells in county record
#CompanyIn Gaston Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Jay Todd JR 106 106 461
2 Roger Scott Philbeck 95 95 105
3 Charlie Nichols 65 65 117
4 Frankie L Oliver 55 55 634
5 Chris Morgan 55 55 493
6 Robbie Ray 47 47 57
7 Roger S. Philbeck 40 40 48
8 Spencer Adams 35 35 448
9 Jay Todd 33 33 801
10 Garrett Padgett 33 33 298
11 Stanley Setzer 31 31 42
12 Joseph Bailey 30 30 467
13 Michael Brook 25 25 108
14 Robert Teague 22 22 547
15 Garrett Clause 22 22 322
16 Roger Scott Phillbeck 22 22 34
17 Kelvin Belk 20 20 383
18 David Camp 16 16 171
19 Gary Sherrill 13 13 97
20 Kyle C Shaw 13 13 102
21 Shane Gossett 12 12 60
22 John Luke Fitzwater 11 11 264
23 George J Brown Iii 11 11 113
24 Garrett J. Padgett 9 9 58
25 Tony R Davis 8 8 115
26 Chris C Russell 4 4 475
27 Jeffery Tucker 4 4 212
28 John V. Kuykendall 4 4 42
29 Matthew Brown 3 3 261
30 Christopher Greene 3 3 130
31 John Mullis 3 3 75
32 Alfred Kiesling SR 2 2 140
33 Clayton Padgett 2 2 90
34 Kyle Shaw 2 2 29
35 Kelvin Belk/Jeffrey Tucker 2 2 37
36 Dwight L. Huneycutt 1 1 631
37 Jeffrey Tucker 1 1 72
38 John M. Mullis 1 1 121
39 Frankie Oliver 1 1 34

Ranked by wells drilled in Gaston County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full NC DEQ + USGS 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 Gaston County?

Jay Todd JR has drilled the most Gaston County wells in the recent record — 106 since 2016, 106 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Gaston County?

39 companies in the NC DEQ + USGS record have drilled wells in Gaston County; 38 of them have drilled somewhere in North Carolina since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Gaston County?

The median drilled depth in Gaston County is 225 ft, based on 2,995 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Gaston County wells page.

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

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