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King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946.
Waggonner Ranch in 2023. The Waggoner Ranch is a historic ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas, in north Texas near the Red River and Oklahoma border. Founded in 1852 by Daniel Waggoner, [2] it is the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [3] [4] The land has been used to raise crops, beef cattle, and horses and to ...
3.3 United States. 3.3.1 Arizona. ... This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large ...
The church bought the original 54,000-acre (220 km 2) tract in 1950 and over 50 years, the ranch grew to more than 312,000 acres (1,260 km 2). In 1997 it was the world's largest beef ranch, and the land was worth an estimated $858 million. [8]
The ranch is bigger than Yosemite National Park in California (762,000 acres), and more than twice as big as Wyoming’s Grand Teton (310,000 acres) and Utah’s Canyonlands (338,000).
The ranch was founded in 1847 and is one of the oldest ranches in the United States, pre-dating many mainland ranches in Texas and other southwestern states by more than 30 years. The founder of the ranch was John Palmer Parker who assisted Kamehameha I in ridding the island of feral bulls and was granted land on which he established the ranch.
It was the first permanent American cattle ranch in Arizona. Hooker bought neighboring ranches until his operation became the largest ranch in Arizona, totaling 800 square miles (2,100 km 2), or about 30 by 27 miles (48 by 43 km). [3] It is located in Sulphur Springs Valley about 27 miles (43 km) north of present-day Willcox, Arizona. The ...
Some Australian cattle stations are larger than 10,000 km 2, with the greatest being Anna Creek Station which measures 23,677 km 2 in area (approximately eight times the largest US Ranch). Anna Creek is owned by S Kidman & Co. The equivalent terms in New Zealand are run and station.