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Ransom County, North Dakota: well logs, drillers & when they were drilled
✓ 994 ND DWR records · verified 2026-08-25
How many wells are on record in Ransom County, North Dakota?
ND DWR holds 994 driller's logs for Ransom County, the earliest from the 1970s and the most recent from the 2020s. 138 of them were drilled since 2016. Each log is a filed document — the depth, the formations and the water the driller found are written on it.
Who drills wells in Ransom County?
65 companies are named on Ransom County well logs. The most active since 2016 is M & W Drilling with 45 wells, then Water Smith, Inc. with 27. The full ranking is below.
How deep are wells in Ransom County?
North Dakota does not publish drilled depth as data — ND DWR's well file has no depth column. The depth of each well is written on the driller's own log, which ND DWR scans and publishes per well. Pull the wells near an address and open their logs to read the depths the drillers actually recorded on this ground.
How much does it cost to drill a well in Ransom County?
We don't publish a Ransom County cost estimate, because the honest input isn't there: cost tracks depth, and North Dakota doesn't publish depth as data. A dollar range built on a depth we don't have would be a guess dressed up as a local number. What we can do is point you at the companies that have actually drilled here — they quote from the same ground, and the logs on this page are their own filings.
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When these wells were drilled
Who drills wells in Ransom County?
Companies by number of wells drilled in this county, per the logs North Dakota contractors file with DWR.
| Driller | Wells since 2016 |
|---|---|
| M & W Drilling | 45 |
| Water Smith, Inc. | 27 |
| Wieber Well Drilling | 7 |
| M&W Drilling | 7 |
| Lako Drilling, Inc. | 6 |
| Manikowski Well Drilling | 5 |
| Manikowski Well Drilling Inc. | 5 |
| M & W Drilling, Inc. | 4 |
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See every recorded well near any address — who drilled it, what for, when, and a link to the driller's own filed log for each one — in a one-time report.
Free lookup Property report — $29Method: counts and dates computed from ND DWR records (ND DWR drillers logs, water wells only (test holes, monitoring, dewatering, recovery and cathodic-protection records excluded)). ND DWR publishes no depth, water level or yield as data — those are written on each well's filed log, which we link per well — full methodology & sources.