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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.
It is over seven times the size of the United States' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 3,340 km 2 (830,000 acres; 1,290 sq mi). [ 4 ] The station is arid pastoral country. [ 5 ]
The main section of the ranch is located near the town of Guthrie in King County, Texas. [1] [2] It spans 350,000 acres (550 sq mi; 140,000 ha) of land. [3] The main ranch house is off U.S. Highway 82. [4] The Dixon Creek section spans 108,000 acres (169 sq mi; 44,000 ha) of land in Carson and Hutchinson counties. [4]
Real estate mogul and owner of the Los Angeles Rams Stan Kroenke owns 1.6 million acres of land in the United States, including a 124,000-acre ranch in Montana and additional land in Wyoming.
In 1900, he purchased the 8 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, which became the nucleus of the present-day 6666 Ranch, followed by the Dixon Creek Ranch and later purchases which now all make up the ranch's ...
3.3 United States. 3.3.1 Arizona. ... King Ranch; Michaelis Ranch; Prairie Chapel Ranch; Southfork Ranch (former) Spade Ranch (Texas) Waggoner Ranch; XIT Ranch; Utah
The South Texas region that encompasses the four divisions of the historic King Ranch, established on the banks of the Santa Gertrudes Creek by Richard King in 1853, is rich in wildlife and ...
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 ...