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Best well drillers in Minnehaha County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 35 drilling companies with wells on record in Minnehaha County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 1,238 logged wells in the South Dakota DANR well completion report database (NR68) (records as of 2026-10-19). Every number links back to the public record.

35companies on record
12active since 2022
1,238wells in county record
#CompanyIn Minnehaha Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Lacey Well Drilling 40 238 911
2 Dave Putzke Well Drilling, Inc. 36 144 394
3 Geotek Engineering & Testing 20 189 667
4 Steffl Drilling & Pump, Inc. 4 8 217
5 Thein Well Company, Inc. 2 67 942
6 Layne Christensen Co. 1 80 133
7 T & J Redder Well & Electric Inc. 1 10 40
8 Alton Well 1 6 200
9 Sargent Irrigation 1 1 122
10 Sioux Well Drilling — 100 146
11 Northern Technologies, LLC — 93 145
12 Maxim Technologies, Inc. — 90 661
13 Wsp Usa — 39 97
14 Graves Well Drilling — 31 59
15 Boart Longyear — 30 38
16 Twin City Testing — 23 129
17 Respec, Inc. — 17 507
18 Bergerson-Caswell, Inc. — 11 36
19 Prairie Consulting Group, Inc. — 9 296
20 Chase Drilling — 7 319
21 Huron Drilling, Incorporated — 7 2,246
22 Environmental Technologies, Inc. — 7 310
23 Thiele Geotech, Inc. — 5 35
24 Dakota Environmental, Inc. — 4 181
25 Lehr Well Drilling — 4 276
26 Kaiser Well Drilling — 3 461
27 Torgrude Well Drilling — 3 248
28 Pullman Well Drilling — 2 3,381
29 Grimshaw Drilling Company — 2 108
30 Verley, Darryl A. — 2 52
31 Dangel, Paul J. — 2 41
32 Meier Well Drilling — 1 149
33 Ltp Enterprises, Inc. — 1 121
34 Peckham, Jim — 1 109
35 Rust, Tony & Son — 1 54

Ranked by wells drilled in Minnehaha 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 Minnehaha County?

Lacey Well Drilling has drilled the most Minnehaha County wells in the recent record — 40 since 2016, 238 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Minnehaha County?

35 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Minnehaha County; 12 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 Minnehaha County?

The median drilled depth in Minnehaha County is 30 ft, based on 1,443 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Minnehaha County wells page.

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

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