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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.
It is much more complicated than this, and hopefully you can see that the answer to your question is based on many variables. There are many ranches in Texas that are greater thn 50,000 acres, some as large as 250,000 acres, and a handful larger than that. A common sized ranch would be around 500 acres.