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Who are the Top 100 Landowners in the US? | Land Report 100

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In 2025, America’s largest landowner is Red Emmerson. Red and his family own 2,440,000 acres in California, Oregon, and Washington through their timber-products company, Sierra Pacific Industries. The Emmersons became America’s largest landowners in 2021 when they acquired 175,000 acres in Oregon from Seneca Timber Company. With that acquisition, the Emmersons surpassed Liberty Media chairman John Malone’s 2,200,000 acres. CNN founder Ted Turner is America’s third largest landowner with 2 million acres in the Southeast, on the Great Plains, and across the West. The Land Report 100 Research Team analyzes transactions and scours records to determine America’s leading landowners. That’s how we broke the news in 2020 that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was America’s largest farmland owner with more than 260,000 acres. That’s how we identified Shanda Investment Group founder Tianqiao Chen as the owner of almost 200,000 acres of Oregon timberland in 2024. It’s one of the many reasons why ne

Land Report 100 Explore the 2026 Top 100 U.S. Landowners. View Top 100 Presented by: Land Report 100 Explore the 2026 Top 100 U.S. Landowners. View Top 100 Presented by: Land Report 100 Who is America’s Largest Landowner? This question is the quest of the Land Report 100 Research Team all year long. In 2026, America’s largest private landowner is Stan Kroenke , who controls an estimated 2,700,000 acres nationwide. In December, Kroenke cemented his position at the top of the rankings by completing the single-largest land purchase in the United States in more than a decade—acquiring more t

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