What famous person owns a ranch in Texas?

Matthew McConaughey: Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has owned a ranch in Texas since 2001. The LP Ranch, which the movie star owns with his wife Camila Alves and his brother Mike, is primarily used to raise angus beef cattle. But there is also an option for visitors to go hunting if they choose.
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What actors own ranches?

Calvin Harris, Chris Pratt, Kelis and more stars who own farms and ranches
  • Not all of your favorite stars live in Hollywood! ...
  • When actor Chris Pratt doesn't have to be in Los Angeles for work, he can often be found on his ranch on Washington State's San Juan Island.
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Who owned the largest ranch in Texas?

Not Dolph Briscoe, Jr., who was Texas' governor from 1973 to 1979. Now 75, Briscoe inherited 190,000 acres when his father, Dolph Briscoe, Sr., died in 1954. Since then, he has more than tripled his holdings, making him Texas' largest individual landowner.
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Who owned the largest cattle ranch in Texas?

The 10 Biggest Ranches in Texas
  • Waggoner Ranch - 535,000 acres.
  • O'Connor Family Ranches - 500,000 acres. ...
  • Hughes Ranch - 390,000 acres. ...
  • Longfellow Ranch - 350,000 acres. ...
  • Nunley Brothers - 301,500 acres. ...
  • Kokernot Heirs (06 Ranch) - 278,000 acres. ...
  • The Four Sixes Ranch - 275,000 acres. ...
  • Jones Family Ranch - 255,000 acres. ...
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What is the most famous ranch in Texas?

The Most Famous Ranches In Texas
  • King Ranch. One of the most famous and the largest ranch in Texas, King Ranch stretches over 825,000 acres. ...
  • XIT Ranch. While it no longer exists, this is still one of the most famous ranches to have operated in Texas. ...
  • Y.O. Ranch. ...
  • Waggoner Ranch. ...
  • La Escalera Ranch. ...
  • Pitchfork Ranch.
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Who owns King Ranch in Texas?

For six generations, the King Ranch has remained in the hands of one family: the descendants of Richard King. Since his death in 1885, there has always been a family member in charge of the “home ranches,” the four massive divisions of land in South Texas.
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Who is the richest rancher in Texas?

  • No. 1: King Ranch Heirs | 911,215 acres. ...
  • No. 2: Briscoe Family | 640,000 acres. ...
  • No. 3: O'Connor Ranch Heirs | 580,000 acres. ...
  • No. 4: Stan Kroenke | 510,527 acres. ...
  • No. 5: Jeff Bezos | 400,000 acres (up 110,000 acres) ...
  • No. 6: Hughes Family | 390,000 acres. ...
  • No. 7: Malone Mitchell 3rd | 384,000 acres. ...
  • No.
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Who owns the 6666 Ranch now?

Photos: Historic West Texas 6666 Ranch Has a New Owner

“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan, who graduated from Fort Worth's Paschal High School, was rumored to have led the group that purchased the ranch.
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Who owns the biggest ranch in America?

John Malone — 2.2 million acres

John Malone, who has been nicknamed the "Cable Cowboy" for his telecommunications ventures, is the single largest landowner in the United States with 2.2 million acres of land.
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Does the King family still own King Ranch?

Alice and Robert Kleberg ended up with more than 800,000 acres, which they and their children incorporated in 1934 as the King Ranch. The five children pledged to stay together for twenty years after the incorporation, but since then the descendants of two of them have left the ranch.
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Is King Ranch a real ranch?

King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi) it is larger than the state of Rhode Island and country of Luxembourg. It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the Triple Crown winning racehorse Assault.
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Who owned a 600000 acre South Texas ranch?

Captain Richard King is a prominent character in Texas history and remembered today for the ranch that he bought in 1853 in the southern part of the state close to the Gulf of Mexico. During his lifetime, he grew the ranch to about 600,000 acres.
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What celebrity lives on a farm?

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah owns at least seven properties, including a 23-acre horse farm estate in Montecito, which she bought at auction for almost £23million ($29million) in 2016.
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How much did Michael Keaton pay for his Montana ranch?

YOUR MAMA'S NOTES: On the unquestionably lucrative heels of his resurgent success with the starring role in the 2014 Academy Award winning “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”, veteran television and film actor Michael Keaton made an under-the-radar $5 million purchase, as was first sussed out by the Bizzy ...
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Which celebrity has the most land?

John Malone is the largest private landowner in the United States. Malone made his fortune as a media tycoon, building the company Tele-Communications, Inc, or TCI, and acting as its CEO before selling it to AT&T for $50 billion in 1999.
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Who owns Yellowstone ranch?

The ranch is owned by John Dutton. His family has owned the land for seven generations and has been under constant threat by land developers, casino moguls, and the Broken Rock Reservation. The Duttons are the sole residents of the ranch along with the workers and hired hands who protect and improve the ranch.
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What is the largest ranch in Texas?

King Ranch, largest ranch in the United States, composed of a group of four tracts of land in southeastern Texas, totaling approximately 825,000 acres (333,800 hectares). The King Ranch was established by Richard King, a steamboat captain born in 1825 in Orange county, New York.
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Who bought the Yellowstone ranch?

The show's co-creator and Fort Worth native Taylor Sheridan now owns the quarter-million-acre 6666 Ranch.
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Who owns the most land in TX?

The largest private landowner in Texas is King Ranch, Inc., with 911,215 acres.
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What land does Jeff Bezos own?

#25 Jeff Bezos owns 290,000 acres.

He bought a 290,000-acre ranch in Texas in 2004, and his aerospace firm Blue Origin uses it to test space vehicles. Data provided by The Land Report. #25 Jeff Bezos owns 290,000 acres. Making the top 25 for the first time is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Does Jeff Bezos have land in Texas?

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth of $190 billion at the time of this writing, but also he is one of the biggest private landowners in the United States. Bezos owns 420,000 acres. Much of his land is in West Texas.
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Who owns most land in USA?

1. John Malone. John Malone is the largest private landowner in the United States.
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Does Bill Gates own land in Arkansas?

In total, Bill and Melinda Gates have acquired land in more than a dozen states. However, his largest land holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres), Nebraska (20,588 acres), Arizona (25,750 acres) and Washington state (16,097).
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How many acres is the 6666 Ranch in Texas?

The 6666's Ranch contains 142,372 acres, more or less, and is located in King County, Texas, which is in the Rolling Plains Region of the state.
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