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.
HARD TIMES HIT TEXAS' GIANT, THE KING RANCH. KINGSVILLE, Tex.â The fabled King Ranch, long a symbol of the wealth, power and pride of Texas, is struggling through one of the most difficult eras in its 134-year history.