Best well drillers in Harding County, South Dakota
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 23 drilling companies with wells on record in Harding County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 710 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.
| # | Company | In Harding Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knutson Well Drilling, Inc. | 37 | 335 | 1,296 |
| 2 | Tim Barritt, LLC | 31 | 48 | 106 |
| 3 | Keller Drilling | 17 | 17 | 97 |
| 4 | Heaton Drilling | 5 | 12 | 320 |
| 5 | Gregory Water & Energy Inc. | 3 | 29 | 167 |
| 6 | Gregg's Drilling & Excavating | 1 | 1 | 663 |
| 7 | American Engineering Testing,Inc. | 1 | 1 | 687 |
| 8 | Himebaugh Drilling | — | 91 | 95 |
| 9 | Tysver Well Drilling, LLC | — | 64 | 76 |
| 10 | Graf Drilling | — | 38 | 381 |
| 11 | M. & R. Drilling | — | 32 | 234 |
| 12 | Dennis V. Johnson Dba Dbj Drilling LLC | — | 9 | 235 |
| 13 | Materi Exploration, Inc. | — | 9 | 27 |
| 14 | Rapid Drilling LLC | — | 7 | 140 |
| 15 | Kinzler Drilling | — | 4 | 80 |
| 16 | Maxim Technologies, Inc. | — | 3 | 661 |
| 17 | Empire Irrigation Drilling Company | — | 2 | 334 |
| 18 | Weston Engineering, Inc. | — | 2 | 89 |
| 19 | Brechtel & Sons Drilling | — | 2 | 26 |
| 20 | Dakota Bice Drilling, Llc. | — | 1 | 329 |
| 21 | Bice Drilling Co. Inc. | — | 1 | 1,098 |
| 22 | Cameron's Pump & Drilling | — | 1 | 300 |
| 23 | Ellison Well Drilling | — | 1 | 158 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Harding 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 Harding County?
Knutson Well Drilling, Inc. has drilled the most Harding County wells in the recent record — 37 since 2016, 335 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Harding County?
23 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Harding 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 Harding County?
The median drilled depth in Harding County is 196 ft, based on 818 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Harding County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on the Harding County wells page.
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