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Best well drillers in Custer County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 40 drilling companies with wells on record in Custer County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,474 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.

40companies on record
15active since 2022
2,474wells in county record
#CompanyIn Custer Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Alexander Drilling, Inc. 209 937 2,596
2 J & M Drilling 108 186 215
3 Howe Well Drilling & Excavating, Inc. 84 549 609
4 Taylor Drilling Company 20 76 888
5 Dennis V. Johnson Dba Dbj Drilling LLC 14 55 235
6 Dakota Bice Drilling, Llc. 13 56 329
7 Venekamp Drilling 5 5 107
8 Geo Enterprises Inc. 3 3 48
9 Rapid Drilling LLC 2 2 140
10 Hamm Drilling 1 55 484
11 Cameron's Pump & Drilling 1 23 300
12 American Engineering Testing,Inc. 1 17 687
13 Bice Drilling Co. Inc. 82 1,098
14 Tefertiller Drilling 79 286
15 Cimarron Drilling, Inc. 39 621
16 Raby Drilling 37 139
17 Downen Drilling Company 35 171
18 Forward Drilling, Inc. 34 70
19 Clark Well Drilling 33 36
20 Nelson Drilling Company 30 34
21 Sam Bice Drilling 25 185
22 D. & I. Well Drilling 25 32
23 Great West Pump 19 34
24 Lewis Drilling 17 352
25 Hickey Well Drilling 11 209
26 Maxim Technologies, Inc. 10 661
27 Klapperich Well Drilling 7 39
28 Weston Engineering, Inc. 5 89
29 Graf Drilling 3 381
30 Twin City Testing 3 129
31 Buzz's Well Drilling 3 80
32 Bice &taylor Drilling 3 68
33 Heaton Drilling 2 320
34 Antler Enterprises, Inc. 2 77
35 Sargent Irrigation 1 122
36 Fmg Engineering 1 76
37 M. & R. Drilling 1 234
38 Sioux Well Drilling 1 146
39 Aecom Technical Services Inc. 1 26
40 Brechtel & Sons Drilling 1 26

Ranked by wells drilled in Custer 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 Custer County?

Alexander Drilling, Inc. has drilled the most Custer County wells in the recent record — 209 since 2016, 937 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Custer County?

40 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Custer County; 15 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 Custer County?

The median drilled depth in Custer County is 210 ft, based on 2,675 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Custer County wells page.

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

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