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Best well drillers in Clay County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 29 drilling companies with wells on record in Clay County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 466 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.

29companies on record
15active since 2022
466wells in county record
#CompanyIn Clay Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 4 Boys TT, LLC Dba Heine Electric & Irrigation 38 46 156
2 Thein Well Company, Inc. 18 32 942
3 Layne Christensen Co. 7 13 133
4 Christensen Well & Irrigation, 6 22 188
5 Sam Well Company 4 8 54
6 Geotek Engineering & Testing 3 32 661
7 Quality Well Service LLC 3 4 125
8 Alton Well 2 2 200
9 Stretch's Well Service, Inc. 1 1 1,175
10 Hammond-Wetmore Drilling 142 403
11 Wetmore Drilling 68 307
12 Merriman Drilling Company 30 121
13 Lacey Well Drilling 18 910
14 Empire Irrigation Drilling Company 10 334
15 Koranda Well Company, LLC 8 286
16 Maxim Technologies, Inc. 5 661
17 Environmental Technologies, Inc. 5 310
18 Verley, Darryl A. 4 52
19 Sargent Irrigation 3 122
20 American Engineering Testing,Inc. 2 687
21 Marion Well Drilling 2 178
22 Meier Well Drilling 2 149
23 Steffl Drilling & Pump, Inc. 1 217
24 Prairie Consulting Group, Inc. 1 296
25 Grimshaw Drilling Company 1 108
26 Dakota Drilling & Backhoe, Inc. 1 108
27 Dangel, Paul J. 1 41
28 Aaa Well Company 1 33
29 Schimelfenig Well Drilling Company 1 29

Ranked by wells drilled in Clay 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 Clay County?

4 Boys TT, LLC Dba Heine Electric & Irrigation has drilled the most Clay County wells in the recent record — 38 since 2016, 46 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Clay County?

29 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Clay 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 Clay County?

The median drilled depth in Clay County is 110 ft, based on 548 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Clay County wells page.

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

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