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.
Confidence votes 5. With 268,820 square miles of area and 640 acres per square mile the actual acerage is 172,044,800 acres. You probably notice that the question asks about land and not land and water. Texas does have a little land (about 2.5 percent) that is covered by water.