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Best well drillers in Lincoln County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 31 drilling companies with wells on record in Lincoln County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 419 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.

31companies on record
15active since 2022
419wells in county record
#CompanyIn Lincoln Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Dave Putzke Well Drilling, Inc. 28 67 392
2 Thein Well Company, Inc. 27 55 942
3 Alton Well 8 61 200
4 Geotek Engineering & Testing 3 32 661
5 Lacey Well Drilling 2 35 910
6 Chase Drilling 2 3 319
7 Steffl Drilling & Pump, Inc. 1 6 217
8 4 Boys TT, LLC Dba Heine Electric & Irrigation 1 1 156
9 Merriman Drilling Company 27 121
10 Graves Well Drilling 24 59
11 Maxim Technologies, Inc. 22 661
12 Hammond-Wetmore Drilling 20 403
13 Sioux Well Drilling 12 146
14 Environmental Technologies, Inc. 7 310
15 Wetmore Drilling 7 307
16 Ltp Enterprises, Inc. 6 121
17 Huron Drilling, Incorporated 5 2,246
18 Layne Christensen Co. 4 133
19 Northern Technologies, LLC 4 145
20 Marion Well Drilling 3 178
21 Verley, Darryl A. 3 52
22 Aaa Well Company 3 33
23 Pullman Well Drilling 2 3,380
24 Sam Well Company 2 54
25 T & J Redder Well & Electric Inc. 2 40
26 Stretch's Well Service, Inc. 1 1,175
27 Kranz Well & Excavation 1 362
28 Torgrude Well Drilling 1 248
29 Grimshaw Drilling Company 1 108
30 Dangel, Paul J. 1 41
31 Reiners Well Drilling 1 32

Ranked by wells drilled in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County?

Dave Putzke Well Drilling, Inc. has drilled the most Lincoln County wells in the recent record — 28 since 2016, 67 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Lincoln County?

31 companies in the SD DANR record have drilled wells in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County?

The median drilled depth in Lincoln County is 142 ft, based on 460 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Lincoln County wells page.

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

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