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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]
Map showing the Great Basin physiographic section (shown as 22a) ... containing 825,000 acres ... which also added 234,000 acres to the park.
Richard King (July 10, 1824 – April 14, 1885) was a riverboat captain, Confederate, entrepreneur, and most notably, the founder of the King Ranch in South Texas, which at the time of his death in 1885 encompassed over 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2).
The 825,000-acre Lava Lake ... (762,000 acres), and more than twice as big as Wyoming’s ... “With over 17,000 acres permanently protected by conservation easement and over 60,000 acres of ...
Recent estimates are that Bill Gates owns around 270,000 acres of farmland around the United States. Gates himself has said in a recent Reddit AMA that he owns roughly 1/4000 of all farmland in ...
One of the reasons for creating sections of 640 acres (260 ha) was the ease of dividing into halves and quarters while still maintaining a whole number of acres. A section can be halved seven times in this way, down to a 5-acre (2 ha) parcel, or half of a quarter-quarter-quarter section—an easily surveyed 50-square-chain (2 ha) area. This ...
The family of Donald Ray Horton, founder of home-building giant D.R. Horton, is selling their sprawling 500,000-acre ranch in New Mexico for $142 million. The Great Western Ranch, near Quemado ...
Of the park's total land area of 790,636 acres (1,235.4 sq mi; 3,199.6 km 2), 429,690 acres (671.4 sq mi; 1,738.9 km 2) are designated wilderness and managed by the National Park Service (NPS) in accordance with the Wilderness Act. [59] The NPS requires registration for overnight camping at specific locations called registration boards.