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What is the largest ranch today?
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#66245. Asked by Juicebox123. (May 27 06 4:06 PM)
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SENTENTIA06
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King Ranch, located in south Texas between Corpus Christi, Texas and Brownsville, Texas, is one of the world's largest ranches (larger than Rhode Island). It is the largest ranch in the United States. The 825,000 acre (3,340 km²) ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, sprawls across six Texas counties, including most of Kenedy County. The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch
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cowhand51
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The King Ranch in south Texas is one of the largest ranches in the world. It encompasses 825,000 acres, and they run 60,000 head of cattle. Some other large ranches are the Waggoner Ranch in Vernon, TX (520,000 acres), Four Sixes Ranch in Lubbock, TX (208,000 acres), and the Pitchfork Ranch in Guthrie, TX (165,000 acres) just to name a few.
http://www.waggonerranch.com/
http://www.6666ranch.com/home.shtml
http://www.thepitchforkranch.com/ranch.html
[3 links added -- Zb]
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Heebees
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Anna Creek station, which is bigger than Israel, encompasses 9,267 square miles/ 23,677 square kilometre of scrub, sand dunes and savannah in the outback of South Australia.
It dwarfs any ranch in Texas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch
A number of Australian cattle stations average 10,000 km² or more, and the very largest is Anna Creek station which measures 23,677 km² in area.
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