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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 ]
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 ]
King Ranch Colony is a Hutterite community [3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Fergus County, Montana, United States. It is in the western part of the county, 3 miles (5 km) northwest of U.S. Routes 87/191 and 11 miles (18 km) west of Lewistown, the county seat. The community was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2]
Four Sixes Ranch; JA Ranch; Kenedy Ranch; 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 ...
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).
After this livestock numbers increased from nil to almost 30,000 within around 10 years leading to King Ranch becoming the then-largest tropical cattle property in Australia. The Ranch's Australian operations were divided up and sold off for considerable capital gain in the late 1980s after the death of Kleberg with the area largely being ...
For many years the King Ranch was the largest landowner in West Marlborough Township and adjoining municipalities Newlin and East Fallowfield townships. The ranch property, operated as Buck and Doe Run Valley Farms, Inc., received Texas longhorn cattle shipped north by railroad for fattening on the lush grass of eastern Pennsylvania before ...