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Best well drillers in Butte County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 43 drilling companies with wells on record in Butte County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 555 logged wells in the South Dakota DANR well completion report database (NR68) (records as of 2026-08-24). Every number links back to the public record.

43companies on record
16active since 2022
555wells in county record
#CompanyIn Butte Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Tim Barritt, LLC 13 21 106
2 Keller Drilling 5 5 97
3 Cameron's Pump & Drilling 4 8 300
4 Heaton Drilling 3 32 320
5 Tefertiller Drilling 3 6 286
6 Buzz's Well Drilling 2 2 80
7 Graf Drilling 142 381
8 M. & R. Drilling 73 234
9 Bice Drilling Co. Inc. 29 1,098
10 Respec, Inc. 23 507
11 American Engineering Testing,Inc. 22 687
12 Ellingson Drilling 21 381
13 Maxim Technologies, Inc. 19 661
14 Weston Engineering, Inc. 18 89
15 Knutson Well Drilling, Inc. 17 1,296
16 Bandy, Merle 12 45
17 Environmental Technologies, Inc. 11 310
18 Taylor Drilling Company 9 888
19 Dennis V. Johnson Dba Dbj Drilling LLC 9 235
20 Materi Exploration, Inc. 9 27
21 Cimarron Drilling, Inc. 7 621
22 Terry Kemmet Dba K & K Well Drilling 7 56
23 Northern Technologies, LLC 6 145
24 Wsp Usa 6 97
25 Antler Enterprises, Inc. 6 77
26 Fmg Engineering 5 76
27 Sam Bice Drilling 4 185
28 Twin City Testing 4 129
29 Venekamp Drilling 3 107
30 Downen Drilling Company 3 171
31 Alexander Drilling, Inc. 2 2,596
32 Dakota Boring Company 2 994
33 Gregory Water & Energy Inc. 2 167
34 Pullman Well Drilling 1 3,380
35 Dakota Bice Drilling, Llc. 1 329
36 Lewis Drilling 1 352
37 Pesicka's Drilling 1 204
38 Sioux Well Drilling 1 146
39 Himebaugh Drilling 1 95
40 Kinzler Drilling 1 80
41 Forward Drilling, Inc. 1 70
42 Bice &taylor Drilling 1 68
43 Great West Pump 1 34

Ranked by wells drilled in Butte County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full SD DANR 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 Butte County?

Tim Barritt, LLC has drilled the most Butte County wells in the recent record — 13 since 2016, 21 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Butte County?

43 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Butte County; 16 of them have drilled somewhere in South Dakota since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

How deep is a typical well in Butte County?

The median drilled depth in Butte County is 260 ft, based on 676 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Butte County wells page.

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

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