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The headquarters of the King Ranch are in an office building in Houston, Texas. [5] The ranch itself is located in South Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville , adjacent to Kingsville . It was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis.
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]
Kenedy Ranch, also called La Parra Ranch, [1] is located in Kenedy County, It was established in 1882 by Mifflin Kenedy , a steamboat operator and rancher. [ 2 ] His friend and business partner, Richard King , established the adjoining King Ranch . [ 1 ]
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 ...
The second map shows a partition of the counties into 12 regions of Texas, as defined by the Texas comptroller. The table, further below, reports currently listings by county, updated frequently. [a] Regions are defined by the Texas State Comptroller, who has partitioned the state into 12 regions for economic performance reporting, as shown here.
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).
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 265 at the 2020 census, [1] making it the second-least populated county in Texas and the third-least populated county in the United States. King County has no incorporated communities. Its county seat is the census-designated place (CDP) of Guthrie. [2]
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