What is the largest ranch in the USA

[DavidInNH]

If I remember correctly, it takes about an hour to drive through the King Ranch on Highway 59. We used to make the trip once a year when I was a kid and the grandparents were still living.

When we learned about the XIT in junior high, it was explained that XIT stood for "ten counties in Texas" - they never explained why they used a roman numeral./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[mbsil]

They use the Roman numerals to keep the branding iron small.

The full name on the brand would cook one side of the cow during branding!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

http://members.aol.com/wmpb/CrossLand/page2.html

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Is that where Ford came up with their King Ranch edition F-150?

 

[Hydraman]

Many of these"mega-ranches" are corporatly owned and contain leased land, etc; but for what it's worth( this is about 20 years ago) the largest PRIVATELY OWNED, DEEDED acerage was in big wonderful Wyoming. Can't remember the name of the place though. If I remember correctrly this was over 1 million deeded acres in one chunk. Probably all changed by now???

 

[BB_TX]

That's the one.

 

[Justaplain]

King Ranch also had an operation near Cochranville Pa up to 10 years ago. Some of the family still owns a bit of it. bcs

 

[Tbone2314]

My family owns the king ranch....

 

[schmism]

Bruce Willis sold like 450,000 acers of Montana like 5 years ago to buy his island... i assume its still relatively one piece.

 

[RobA]

King Ranch also had an operation near Cochranville Pa up to 10 years ago. Some of the family still owns a bit of it. bcs

The old King Ranch in PA is up the road from me. They bought land from the DuPonts (originally 4,300 acres and later growing to 9,200 acres) to allow their cattle to graze closer to the market. A lot of that land is now deed restricted and owned by horse farms. Beautiful farms.