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Top 10 Largest Landowners in the U.S. Revealed - ProAg (2024)

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Who are the largest landowners in the United States? ›

The largest private landowner in the United States is the Emmerson family, which owns and operates Sierra Pacific Industries, one of the largest lumber producers in the country.

Who owns the biggest ranch in the US? ›

The Emmersons became America's largest landowners in 2021 when they acquired 175,000 acres in Oregon from Seneca Timber Company. With that acquisition, the Emmersons surpassed Liberty Media chairman John Malone's 2,200,000 acres.

What is the largest landowner category in the US? ›

The 2022 Land Report 100, compiled each year by The Land Report magazine, released its annual list of landowners who own the most acres in the United States. The nation's largest private landowners are the Emmerson family in California who own over 2.4 million acres.

Who owns the most land in California? ›

Total acres in 2022: 1.74 million

Sierra Pacific Industries isn't just the largest private landowner in California, with about 1.74 million acres in the state as of 2022, per Regrid's data. It's the largest in the nation, overseeing more than 2.4 million acres of timberland in California, Oregon and Washington.

How much land does China own in the United States? ›

According to a 2021 report by the Department of Agriculture, China owns 384,000 acres of American agricultural land; ownership which jumped by 30% from 2019 to 2020.

How much farmland does Jeff Bezos own? ›

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Bill Gates hit the headlines in 2020 by becoming the country's largest owner of private farmland. At that time, he had about 269,000 acres in 18 states across America. Ted Turner, the media mogul, also owns 2 million acres of farmland, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns over 420,000 acres.

Who owns the most private land in America? ›

Top ten largest private landowners:
  • Emmerson family 2.411 million acres.
  • John Malone 2.2 million acres.
  • Ted Turner 2 million acres.
  • Reed family 1.661 million acres.
  • Stan Kroenke 1.627 million acres.
  • Irving family 1.267 million acres.
  • Buck family 1.236 million acres.
  • Singleton family 1.1 million acres.
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Who owned a 600000 acre South Texas ranch? ›

The second largest ranch in Texas, the 600,000+ acres Briscoe Family ranch was once home to the largest individual landowner in Texas, Gov. Dolph Briscoe, Jr., known to close relatives as “Big Daddy”.

What single person owns the most land? ›

Who Owns the Most Land in the World? The largest landowner in the world currently is King Charles III of England. How much land does the Royal Family own? He and the British Royal Family own more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world.

How much land does the Mormon Church own in the US? ›

The Nebraska land is just one slice of the 1.7 million acres of American real estate the Mormon church is now estimated to own. That 1.7 million-acre total is likely an undercount, said Truth and Transparency co-founder Ryan McKnight, because it only includes corporations definitively traced back to the church.

Who is the biggest land owner in the world? ›

Meet the world's largest landowners. The British Royal Family, headed by newly crowned King Charles III, owns 6.6 billion acres of land worldwide. That's more than 37 times as much as the global runner-up, the Catholic Church.

Who owns the most land in Florida? ›

Mormon church: Florida residents wonder what the Mormon church will do with the nearly 400,000 acres of timber and farm land just purchased. The Mormon church paid $565 million for land in the Florida panhandle.

Who is the richest farmer in California? ›

Country's Wealthiest Farmer Stewart Resnick Makes 'A Kingdom From Dust' During Drought. An irrigation ditch that runs parallel to a Wonderful Company pomegranate orchard. The wealthiest farmer in the United States lives and farms in California.

Who has more land Texas or California? ›

Texas is the second largest state with an area of 268,596 square miles (695,662 square kilometers). California ranks as the third largest state by area (163,696 square miles or 423,970 square kilometers) and largest by population.

Who is the richest farming family in California? ›

The wealthiest farming family in California is planning to expand an industrial warehouse complex to transform a small town into an international trading hub. Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaires behind The Wonderful Company, already own a sprawling distribution center in Shafter, northwest of Bakersfield.

What is the largest family owned ranch in the United States? ›

King Ranch, largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares). The King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York.

Is the federal government the largest landowner in the US? ›

Distribution. Federal land is concentrated in the Western United States. Nationwide, the federal government owns 27.4% of all land area.

Is the Catholic Church the largest landowner in the world? ›

The Catholic Church owns an estimated 177 million acres around the world, which makes them by far the largest landowners on Earth. In second place is Canada's Inuit people who own 87 million acres spread across Nunavut (Northwest Territory), Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada as well as Alaska and Greenland.

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