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.
The largest contiguous ranch in the United States is Wagoner Ranch in Texas with 535,000 acres which is equivalent to 2165 sq kilometres. The largest in Canada was the Alexis Creek Ranch in British Columbia with 350,000 acres, approximately 1416 sq kilometres. S. Kidman & Coâs assets spread over 100,000 kilometres, and include around 155,000 branded cattle. It is responsible for 1.3% of all boxed-beef exports coming out of Australia.