Who Are the Biggest Landowners in the US?

The United States of America may be a vast country, but it appears that huge swathes of its land are in fact owned by a relatively small number of people.

So who are these ‘land barons’ exactly? Let’s take a look.

1 King family

The King dynasty has owned huge stretches of land in Texas for over 150 years, as Richard King began purchasing it in 1853 and kept expanding his holdings all the way until his death in 1885. Today, the King Ranch is the biggest in Texas, comprising 825,000 acres of land covering six of the state’s counties.

When Ted Turner was ten, he was brought to court for poaching squirrels on his neighbor’s property. After this ordeal, the man who would eventually become the founder of CNN promised himself that he’ll earn so much money he’d be able to buy his own place to hunt and fish. Now, as one of the biggest landowners in the US, it seems that he more than fulfilled that promise.

5 John Malone

John Malone, the founder of the Liberty Media Corporation, is probably the biggest landowner in the entire United States. The total acreage of his holdings is 150 times the size of Manhattan and three times the size of Rhode Island.

Reprinted from Sputnik News.

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