Best well drillers in Burleigh County, North Dakota

Not a pay-to-play list: these are the 54 drilling companies with wells on record in Burleigh County, ranked by wells actually drilled here — 3,119 logged wells in the North Dakota Department of Water Resources drillers log file (records as of 2026-08-25). Every number links back to the public record.

54companies on record

16active since 2022

3,119wells in county record

#	Company	In Burleigh Co. since 2016	All-time in county	Statewide
1	Backman Drilling	191	635	1,186
2	Northern Plains Drilling	67	79	181
3	Quicksilver Well	14	21	45
4	Reed Well Service	12	109	143
5	Quick Silver Well	10	47	97
6	Earth Energy & Water Systems	5	148	877
7	Schaff & Sons Repair	5	60	130
8	Kamoni Water Wells	3	20	1,672
9	Thompson Drilling	3	3	1,674
10	Brase Drilling LLC	2	2	486
11	Feickert Drilling	1	23	137
12	Manikowski Well Drilling	1	8	669
13	Opp Well Drilling	1	7	3,372
14	Traut Wells Inc.	1	2	950
15	Gregory Water & Energy Inc.	1	1	625
16	Eews, Inc.	1	1	25
17	Zachmeier Well Drilling	—	678	1,398
18	Wetch & Sons Drilling	—	239	311
19	H L Mclean Drilling	—	200	214
20	Wetch Drilling	—	162	369
21	Driver Well Drilling	—	139	236
22	Water Supply Inc.	—	85	273
23	Farmers Supply Co.	—	65	480
24	Dickson Well Drilling	—	52	152
25	Baumgartner Drilling	—	49	628
26	Zachmeier Drilling	—	39	64
27	Nelson Drilling	—	33	80
28	Wetch & Sons	—	31	310
29	K & K Well Drilling	—	25	497
30	Empire Irrigation & Drilling Co.	—	19	32
31	Russell Drilling	—	18	345
32	Schaff & Sons	—	18	51
33	Thurn Well Boring	—	17	46
34	Witikko Drilling	—	11	159
35	Mann Drilling	—	10	638
36	Guthmiller & Sons	—	9	165
37	Ltp Enterprises	—	8	1,549
38	Schimelfenig Well Drilling	—	7	718
39	Gross Drilling	—	7	221
40	Jacob Thurn	—	6	212
41	Circle M Drilling	—	5	274
42	Mark J. Traut Wells, Inc.	—	4	26
43	Agri Industries	—	2	786
44	Don & Keith Erck	—	2	670
45	Bob's Drilling	—	2	509
46	Broneske Well Drilling	—	2	234
47	Joe Hartman	—	2	87
48	Milo Burwick & Sons	—	1	261
49	Steven M. Traut Wells Inc.	—	1	60
50	Moe's Well Drilling	—	1	175
51	Aberle Well Co.	—	1	100
52	Lenius Well Drilling	—	1	56
53	Kemmet Drilling	—	1	43
54	Mertz Well Drilling	—	1	32

Ranked by wells drilled in Burleigh County since 2016 (then all-time), from the full ND DWR 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 Burleigh County?

Backman Drilling has drilled the most Burleigh County wells in the recent record — 191 since 2016, 635 in the county all-time.

How many well drilling companies work in Burleigh County?

54 companies in the ND DWR record have drilled wells in Burleigh County; 16 of them have drilled somewhere in North Dakota since 2022. Smaller operators below the record threshold may also serve the area.

Log counts, drilling dates, and the full driller ranking for this county live on the Burleigh County wells page.

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