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  2. Jan 12, 2023 · 1. The King Ranch, owned by the King heirs, is located in Texas. This massive ranch covers 825,000 acres of land! This is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island. Not only is it the largest ranch in Texas, but also one of the largest in the world. Approximately 35,000 head of cattle and more than 200 Quarter Horses are raised on the ranch.

    • Waggoner Ranch. Location: North Texas. Size: 535,000 acres. This ranch is widely recognized as the largest in the country behind one fence. Founded back in 1849 by Dan Waggoner, the operation turned into a true ranching empire thanks to Dan's son, W.T.
    • Vermejo Park Ranch. Location: Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Size: 560,000 acres. Related Content. Inside Taylor Sheridan's $264 Million Bosque Ranch Where 'Yellowstone' Is Filmed.
    • Briscoe Ranches. Location: South/West Texas. Size: 660,000 acres. One of the largest ranching dynasties in Texas was built up by former Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe.
    • Babbitt Ranches. Location: Flagstaff, Ariz. Size: 750,000 acres. Babbitt Ranches raises 8,000 head of cattle on its massive property of private, state and federal land that dates back to 1886.
  3. According to The Land Report's annual list of the top private landowners in the US, the 20 biggest individual and family landowners in the country own over a half-million acres each.

    • Emmerson Family. SIZE: 2,400,000 acres. STATES: California, Oregon and Washington. Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson started (SIP) Sierra Pacific Industries with his father in 1949.
    • John Malone. SIZE: 2,200,000 acres. STATES: Florida, New Mexico, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Wyoming. John Malone owns 2,200,000 acres of land.
    • The Reed Family. SIZE: 2,100,000 acres. STATES: California, Oregon, Washington. The Reed Family owns 2,100,000 acres of land, primarily in California, Washington, and Oregon.
    • Ted Turner. SIZE: 2,000,000 acres. STATES: Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota. Ted Turner is the founder of television channels TNT, TBS, and CNN.
  4. Sep 6, 2019 · The 100 largest owners of private property in the U.S., newcomers and old-timers together, have 40 million acres, or approximately 2% of the country’s land mass, according to data from the Land...

  5. Jan 11, 2023 · The nation’s largest private landowners are the Emmerson family in California who own over 2.4 million acres. The bulk of that land is dedicated to timber in Northern California. But the most headline-worthy transaction of 2022 was the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas.

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