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Best well drillers in Dickinson County, Kansas
Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 46 drilling companies with wells
on record in Dickinson County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 2,408 logged
wells in the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) WWC-5 water well records database (records as of 2026-09-22). Every number links back to
the public record.
46companies on record
20active since 2022
2,408wells in county record
| # | Company | In Dickinson Co. since 2016 | All-time in county | Statewide |
|---|
| 1 | Backhus Well Drilling, LLC | 126 | 127 | 721 |
| 2 | Haldeman Well Drilling & Pump Service | 70 | 152 | 1,195 |
| 3 | Associated Drilling, Inc. | 39 | 90 | 1,922 |
| 4 | Flint Hills Drlg #914 | 37 | 37 | 531 |
| 5 | Central Kansas Drilling | 33 | 798 | 881 |
| 6 | Peterson Mcnett Drilling, Inc. | 27 | 30 | 1,260 |
| 7 | Associated Drilling, Inc. #990 | 24 | 24 | 479 |
| 8 | Flint Hills Drilling | 10 | 10 | 206 |
| 9 | Sargent Drilling | 9 | 9 | 168 |
| 10 | Blue Valley Drilling | 8 | 16 | 1,448 |
| 11 | Geocore Services Inc. | 7 | 18 | 327 |
| 12 | Backhus Drilling | 6 | 376 | 1,560 |
| 13 | Zinn Water Well Drlg. | 4 | 94 | 842 |
| 14 | H20 Drilling | 4 | 8 | 87 |
| 15 | Rosencrantz-Bemis Enterprises, Inc. | 4 | 6 | 11,621 |
| 16 | Sargent Drlg #946 | 3 | 3 | 84 |
| 17 | Peterson Drilling - #1079 | 3 | 3 | 32 |
| 18 | H2o Drilling | 2 | 2 | 370 |
| 19 | Peterson Drilling, LLC | 2 | 2 | 76 |
| 20 | Mel's Pump & Plumbing, Inc. | 1 | 3 | 72 |
| 21 | Rick Chase Water Well Drilling | 1 | 1 | 2,682 |
| 22 | Hydrotech Well And Pump | 1 | 1 | 43 |
| 23 | Paul H. Backhus Drilling | — | 166 | 1,237 |
| 24 | Brant E. Rader Drilling Co. | — | 155 | 262 |
| 25 | Peterson Irrigation, Inc. | — | 95 | 3,499 |
| 26 | Michael Peterson Irrigation, Inc. | — | 32 | 844 |
| 27 | Craig Haldeman Well Drilling & Pump Service | — | 24 | 739 |
| 28 | Associated Environmental, Inc. | — | 21 | 472 |
| 29 | Pestinger Pump & Water Well Drlg., Inc. | — | 17 | 1,799 |
| 30 | Paul Pestinger Pump & Water Well Drlg., Inc. | — | 17 | 679 |
| 31 | O.s. Fent Hydraulic Drilling Company | — | 12 | 440 |
| 32 | Harold Strader Drilling Company | — | 12 | 380 |
| 33 | Daryl Cox & Sons, Inc. | — | 9 | 340 |
| 34 | Strader Drilling Co., Inc. | — | 8 | 4,132 |
| 35 | Charles Eldred Harper Drilling Service | — | 8 | 168 |
| 36 | Layne-Christensen Co. | — | 6 | 1,076 |
| 37 | Patchen Pump & Well Drlg., Inc. | — | 2 | 88 |
| 38 | Kelly's Water Well Service, Inc. | — | 2 | 8,942 |
| 39 | Cox-Beswick Irrigation Service, Inc. | — | 2 | 382 |
| 40 | Geo Cox & Sons, Inc. | — | 2 | 276 |
| 41 | Ksu | — | 2 | 92 |
| 42 | Pestinger Pump Service | — | 2 | 71 |
| 43 | Pratt Well Service, Inc. | — | 1 | 529 |
| 44 | Mcnee Drilling & Metals | — | 1 | 181 |
| 45 | M & D Well Service | — | 1 | 173 |
| 46 | L.h. Krause Shop | — | 1 | 138 |
Ranked by wells drilled in Dickinson County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full KGS
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 Dickinson County?
Backhus Well Drilling, LLC has drilled the most Dickinson County wells in the recent record — 126 since 2016, 127 in the county all-time.
How many well drilling companies work in Dickinson County?
46 companies in the KGS record have drilled wells in Dickinson County; 20 of them have drilled somewhere in Kansas since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.
How deep is a typical well in Dickinson County?
The median drilled depth in Dickinson County is 74 ft, based on 2,537 recorded wells. Depths, water levels, and yields are on the Dickinson County wells page.
Well depths, static water levels, tested yields, and drilling cost estimates for this county live on
the Dickinson County wells page.
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