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 ranches on this list are fulling functioning, profitable livestock and oil operations that span in the hundreds of thousands of acres. The combined square footage of the 10 biggest Texas ranches reaches over four million acres or nearly 7,000 square miles. Check out the list to see who made the cut, and how many youâre familiar with.