Latest news from Orrum, NC collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: English (12.2%), French (7.3%), Scotch-Irish (2.4%), Scottish (2.4%), United States (2.4%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Elevation: 205 feet. Land area: 0.56 square miles.
At the time of his death, in 1885, founder Richard King owned half a million acres and was the wealthiest man in Texas. His grandson Robert J. Kleberg Jr. built the business into a 15-million-acre global empire, with ranches spread from Argentina to Australia.
This data represents $18.5 billion of ranches, farms and other land acreage for sale in the state covering a total of 5.1 million acres. Farmland was the most common type of land for sale in Texas. Of the 254 counties in Texas, Henderson County had the most land and farms for sale.