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Best well drillers in Yankton County, South Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 31 drilling companies with wells on record in Yankton County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 721 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
721wells in county record
#CompanyIn Yankton Co. since 2016All-time in countyStatewide
1 Quality Well Service LLC 38 57 125
2 Thein Well Company, Inc. 25 78 942
3 Christensen Well & Irrigation, 18 88 188
4 4 Boys TT, LLC Dba Heine Electric & Irrigation 17 19 156
5 Sam Well Company 11 17 54
6 Marion Well Drilling 4 9 178
7 Dave Putzke Well Drilling, Inc. 4 4 392
8 Stretch's Well Service, Inc. 3 14 1,175
9 Hammond-Wetmore Drilling 1 109 403
10 Grosch Irrigation Co., Inc. 1 5 164
11 Koranda Well Company, LLC 75 286
12 Well Doctor & Repair 41 85
13 Wetmore Drilling 35 307
14 Pullman Well Drilling 28 3,380
15 Lehr Well Drilling 27 276
16 Geotek Engineering & Testing 25 661
17 Layne Christensen Co. 17 133
18 Respec, Inc. 16 507
19 American Engineering Testing,Inc. 13 687
20 Environmental Technologies, Inc. 11 310
21 Verley, Darryl A. 10 52
22 Merriman Drilling Company 8 121
23 Ries Well Drilling 3 169
24 Schimelfenig Well Drilling Company 3 29
25 Grimshaw Drilling Company 2 108
26 Dangel, Paul J. 2 41
27 Dakota Environmental, Inc. 1 181
28 Hutmacher Drilling, Inc. 1 855
29 Sioux Well Drilling 1 146
30 Wsp Usa 1 97
31 Bjorum Brothers 1 27

Ranked by wells drilled in Yankton 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 Yankton County?

Quality Well Service LLC has drilled the most Yankton County wells in the recent record — 38 since 2016, 57 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Yankton County?

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

The median drilled depth in Yankton County is 123 ft, based on 809 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Yankton County wells page.

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

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