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Tejon Ranch Company (NYSE: TRC), based in Lebec, California, is one of the largest private landowners in California. [1] [2] The company was incorporated in 1936 to organize the ownership of a large tract of land that was consolidated from four Mexican land grants acquired in the 1850s and 1860s by ranch founder Edward Fitzgerald Beale.
Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson (born 1929) is the founder of Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber products company that operates in California, Oregon and Washington.With 2.33 million acres, Emmerson and his family rank as America's largest private landowners, according to a profile [1] by Eric O’Keefe in the 2021 Land Report 100.
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
He became one of the largest landowners in the United States when he purchased 561,000 acres of land in northern Florida for $700 million in 2015. He bought more land recently.
The people and organizations who own the most land in the world own millions -- and in the case of the top landowner -- billions of acres of land. Many of the top 10 largest landowners are...
In 2014, the Reed family purchased 600,000 acres of Oregon timberland, putting them fifth on the largest US landowners list. In 2015, the family was estimated to have a net worth of $1.7 billion. [ 3 ]
By 2009, SPI and Turner Enterprises had been overtaking each other to be the largest land owner in the United States. [32] SPI is the largest landowner in California, with an estimated holding of 1,700,000 acres (2,700 sq mi), amounting to twice the area of Yosemite National Park.
The Land Report 100 is an annual ranking of America's leading landowners and the magazine's signature study. It is regularly cited by U.S. and international media in articles that cover leading American landowners. The inaugural Land Report 100 was published in April 2007.