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Best well drillers in Lincoln County, North Carolina

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 43 drilling companies with wells on record in Lincoln County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 929 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.

43companies on record
43active since 2022
929wells in county record
#CompanyIn Lincoln Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Jay Todd JR 219 219 461
2 Robert Teague 166 166 547
3 Chris Morgan 93 93 493
4 Tony R Davis 57 57 115
5 Joseph Bailey 53 53 467
6 Jay Todd 47 47 801
7 Garrett Clause 33 33 322
8 Michael Brook 31 31 108
9 Kyle C Shaw 30 30 102
10 Alfred Kiesling SR 28 28 140
11 Sam Byrd 22 22 41
12 Shane Gossett 18 18 60
13 Chris C Russell 14 14 475
14 Roger Scott Phillbeck 11 11 34
15 George J Brown Iii 8 8 113
16 Kyle Shaw 8 8 29
17 Garrett Padgett 7 7 298
18 Spencer Adams 7 7 448
19 Kelvin Belk 6 6 383
20 Roger Scott Philbeck 6 6 105
21 David Camp 6 6 171
22 Robbie Ray 6 6 57
23 Frankie L Oliver 5 5 634
24 John Luke Fitzwater 5 5 264
25 Roger S. Philbeck 5 5 48
26 Ricky Corriher 4 4 555
27 Jeffery Tucker 4 4 212
28 John V. Kuykendall 4 4 42
29 Clayton Padgett 3 3 90
30 Neill Pardue 3 3 36
31 Stanley Setzer 3 3 42
32 Jody Mullis 2 2 296
33 Christopher Greene 2 2 130
34 Charlie Nichols 2 2 117
35 Gary Sherrill 2 2 97
36 Garrett J. Padgett 2 2 58
37 Chris King 1 1 927
38 Chad Hartness 1 1 225
39 Matthew Brown 1 1 261
40 Randy Ownbey 1 1 167
41 Chad Mullis 1 1 113
42 Jeffrey Tucker 1 1 72
43 Jonathan L Miller 1 1 46

Ranked by wells drilled in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County?

Jay Todd JR has drilled the most Lincoln County wells in the recent record — 219 since 2016, 219 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Lincoln County?

43 companies in the NC DEQ + USGS record have drilled wells in Lincoln County; 43 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 Lincoln County?

The median drilled depth in Lincoln County is 245 ft, based on 3,779 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Lincoln County wells page.

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

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