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Best well drillers in Hand County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 27 drilling companies with wells on record in Hand County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 749 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.

27companies on record
10active since 2022
749wells in county record
#CompanyIn Hand Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Stretch's Well Service, Inc. 45 67 1,175
2 Pullman Well Drilling 8 210 3,380
3 Cain Drilling 1 73 219
4 Steffl Drilling & Pump, Inc. 1 1 217
5 Huron Drilling, Incorporated 162 2,246
6 Dakota Boring Company 52 994
7 Independent Drilling Co., Inc. 39 1,188
8 Respec, Inc. 27 507
9 Norbeck & Nicholson Co. 23 411
10 Empire Irrigation Drilling Company 19 334
11 Environmental Technologies, Inc. 14 310
12 Bergeleen Well Drilling 11 555
13 Caryl Larsen Well Drilling 11 102
14 Carl Meier & Sons 9 396
15 American Engineering Testing,Inc. 4 687
16 Hickey Well Drilling 4 209
17 Thein Well Company, Inc. 3 942
18 Dakota Environmental, Inc. 3 181
19 Chase Drilling 3 319
20 Hutmacher Drilling, Inc. 3 855
21 Oahe Drilling Company 3 148
22 Grosch Irrigation Co., Inc. 2 164
23 Kaiser Well Works 2 85
24 Kaiser Well Drilling 1 461
25 Hinker Drilling Company 1 203
26 Wsp Usa 1 97
27 Aaa Well Company 1 33

Ranked by wells drilled in Hand 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 Hand County?

Stretch's Well Service, Inc. has drilled the most Hand County wells in the recent record — 45 since 2016, 67 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Hand County?

27 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Hand County; 10 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 Hand County?

The median drilled depth in Hand County is 1,014 ft, based on 1,286 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Hand County wells page.

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

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