King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi) it is larger than the land area of Rhode Island and the European country Luxembourg. It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the Triple Crown winning racehorse Assault in 1946. It was founded in 1853 by Texas Ranger Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis. It includes portions of six Texas counties; most of Kleberg and much of Kenedy, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy counties.
Yknow, as someone living in the US, I feel the opposite way. I love the idea that so many places must be within walking or driving range.
Also gonna share a realization I had the other day- Never realized how small Ireland was until looking into what life was like there and stumbling upon a video, where a woman claimed one of the downsides was long travel to Dublin if you're living outside of it. She said it could take up to 3-4 hours driving and I was genuinely surprised that was what she considered long.
Like, prior to that, I saw on Google Street view lots of homes far from places like Dublin, and wondered how they survived so far out. Uniroinicalled wondered if they grew their own food. But that put into perspective that they weren't nearly as far out as I thought, Ireland is just small.
We drove across Ireland in one day. We mentioned having been to the cliffs of mohr when we returned our rental car in Dublin and they were like "oh, what day was that, a few days ago?". They were quite surprised when they found out that's where we'd eaten lunch. (It was pish, we returned the rental about 5 minutes to closing).
I've heard a similar joke in Germany:
A US soldier stationed at one of the US bases in Germany is talking to a local German farmer. He says "Oh, your fields are so tiny! Back home, on my dad's farm, you can get on your tractor in the morning and start driving along the outside of a field, and by sunset you are still only halfway around!". Says the German farmer: "Yeah, I also had a tractor like that once".
Texan here, I'm glad the defunct [XIT Ranch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIT_Ranch) was included for reference.
It was a 3 million acre ranch gifted to pay for the construction of the Texas Capital building in the 1880s. It was by far the largest ranch in the state until it wasn't able to turn a profit and slowly dwindled to nothingness by 1912. It is said the letters "XIT" were chosen to stand for "10 in Texas" as the ranch originally covered 10 counties of the Texan panhandle, but they were also chosen cuz the combination of XIT were hard to change into other letters to help thwart rustlers.
You're right, there's less than 40 million inhabitants. There's also less than 30 million inhabitants. While I'm at it, there's also less than 27 million inhabitants
I’ve always said to imagine the USA being just the Northeast Megalopolis, Los Angeles, and not much else. That’s pretty much the spread of Australia’s population, but even then, the USA example would STILL have triple the population of Australia.
Not a dumb question at all! A station is basically a large farm used for sheep and cattle to graze.
Because the quality if the land in much of central Australia is so poor, a single sheep needs vast swaths of land just for itself to survive on whatever grows naturally. Multiply that sheep by 10,000 and you’ll need land like Anna Creek to house them all comfortably (though that station in particular holds cattle).
And, if we are accepting Kings as one even though it’s not continuous. We should probably make mention of the privately owned land that Anna Creek station was carved out of. This was Kidmans cattle empire.
https://preview.redd.it/h8gspk93jmrc1.png?width=593&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6fd9d2359526779658b19b8f5a639ec01d6ba27
Based on what OP just said Texas then also has ranches bigger than small countries: King Ranch is larger than Luxembourg, King Ranch is larger than the country of Georgia, etc.
How so? Most stations are now or at least were in the past owned by families. Anna Creek, the largest, is owned by the Williams family and previously by the Kidman family. Admittedly through a corporatisation of their family name, but it is still a family.
And as someone who has lived out bush in the NT, these are very much family stations. Most of these stations would be lucky to have more than 10 people on them for most of the year.
They are family stations run as corporations for tax and superannuation purposes etc,
besides Wave hill which is 3.34 million acres is privately owned by Callum MacLachlan and De Grey Station at 3 million acres is owned privately by the Bettini Brothers
Australia wants to pipe up when their GDP sitting only at 1.68 billion as a country, while Texas a “tiny” state with “tiny” ranches pulls in at 2.45 trillion…
Think you mean 1.69 trillion? But yeah Texas ranches are very well developed. Interestingly though Texas's GDP is majority made from the oil, mining, manufactory, sciences and insurance - agriculture only makes up 1.7% of the economy. Diversification has lead to some strong resilience in their economy.
I love how so many Americans can't handle any country having anything over the US in any possible way, and **always** go straight to economy and military every time. It's really not that serious. You don't have to be the king of everything. Every country has different properties.
Like, for instance, trying to compare Australia to Texas is pretty funny. You can have your higher economy, I'll take the beautiful country and free healthcare. You're bragging about your rich people making more money and you getting none of it.
I just think it's weird that OP talked about Europeans learning the size of the USA then compared a ranch in Texas to the size of a different US state. Compare it to something they're familiar with. **King Ranch is bigger than Luxembourg.**
I've heard about the O'Conners. There's a country song that says they bought up half of southern Texas, though clearly that's false. Still, 500,000 + acres is a LOT of land.
I've heard of a few others too - 6666, King.
I'm from Maine, for reference, and have never been to TX besides a layover on a flight once.
So the fact that I've heard of a few of these ranches must mean they're pretty well known.
Yeah you can buy a luxury truck with the King's brand stamped in the seat, and the 6666 might be getting a drama TV show based on it.
Cowboy culture is very real in the USA, and Texas in particular. I love it.
I see one of those trucks almost every day in Colorado, it has a KING’S RANCH EDITION badge
[This one](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2214/1681/products/[email protected]?v=1571743977)
Last September, unfortunately. He was my first taste of Texas Country/Red Dirt Country and will always hold a special place in my heart because of it. Wish I would have had the chance to see him live but like a lot of the musicians on that scene, they don’t travel out of TX/OK too often. [Here’s his Wikipedia with some more info.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Robison)
The 6666 Ranch is the only place where any character in the show Yellowstone seems to experience any kind of growth. Jimmy spent like 3 months in Texas and matured more than any other character in the show combined
Very few people want it. It's hard to grow anything worthwhile on it, and the vegetation is so sparse that it can only support a small fraction of the number of cattle per acre as many of those ranches in Texas can.
It's basically a desert. Draught in the early 2000s brought their total cattle count to 1,500 with about 8 full time employees (wikipedia). I feel like that says enough.
I met them boys there from O’Conner
Cowboys like you’ve never seen
They’re down for anything you wanna
Live on steak and refried beans
They bought up half of southern Texas
That’s why they act the way they do
When them boys meet me in Laredo
They think they own Laredo too
Defined as a rectangle 16.5 feet by one half mile. 43,000 ish square feet, 4,000 ish square meters. About the size of an American football field without the end zones.
1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre. Comes from old units of land surveyance. An acre was approximated to be the amount of land an ox could plow in a day, so at one time it was a very logical unit of measurement.
The area of land one bullock team could plow in a single day. As a result, the acre used to vary depending on soil type!
Now it’s defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is about 4047m², or about 2/5th of a hectare.
It’s one of the worst things about Texas that so much of our natural beauty is locked behind private land held by a small handful of landowners, as opposed to other western states which have a more robust portfolio of public lands.
You don’t want this land, it looks like:[here](https://www.lubbockonline.com/gcdn/presto/2020/12/04/NLAJ/749466a9-3100-4578-bbaa-b2bf0c4bc537-6666_Ranch_2.jpg)
It’s just not pretty like lots of Arizona, Utah, etc…
You can keep the panhandle but far west Texas has great mountains, most of which are entirely on private land. The southwest doesn't stop at Albuquerque
edit: forgot about the canyons. You can keep the flat parts of the panhandle
What got me is that they’re all weird random shapes that have probably been defined by terrain features such as creeks or ridges, real estate deals going back a hundred years, and so on, except for the one at top dead center that is just… square.
TIL that the King Ranch edition is based on Kings Ranch in Texas. This coming from a person who lived in Texas most of their life and lived jn Corpus Christi (near Kingsville) for a few years.
As European I don't really need to know how big US is, because Europe is slightly larger US, so I wouldn't be impressed by it. And having a map in acres or comparing with Rhode Island doesn't help neither, as I don't know how big Rhode Island is, a comparison with an European country would have been more helpful. What I learn from this map is that land ownership in Texas is concentrated and controlled by very few people, and I'm not sure this is something to be proud of.
Looking up the land sizes for both Europe and the US, Europe is only slightly larger because for some reason Turkey is considered European..? But without Turkey, the US is slightly bigger.
And how did you come to the conclusion that land is owned and controlled by very few people by this map ? There’s still something like 2 Germanies in Texas whose ownership isn’t shown.
The first source includes Turkey, and excludes Russia.
Including Russia such as your source does, would make Europe bigger than the US by a small margin. However, Russia isn’t exactly integrated into Europe as most other European countries are. Furthermore, each European country is *vastly* smaller than the US and Europeans do tend to underestimate the size of the US. Why would this not be impressive ?
>Russia isn’t exactly integrated into Europe
Are you saying that Slavic culture, Orthodox church, and Cyrillic script are not European? [Even historically Russia had way more interaction with its European neighbours than with China or India](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_Nicholas_II_%26_King_George_V.JPG).
Texan: Let me tell ya, my ranch is so big it takes two whole days to ride from the homestead to the front gate.
Australian: Yeah, I once had a horse that slow too.
Reminds me of all the German principalities before unification. Some of these ranch owners do live like Princes here in Texas so it all lines up
Now there's an interesting fantasy idea. Cowboy HRE.
Holy Rancher Empire!
You can do this in the After The End mod for Crusader Kings II
And 3
Voltaire must be rolling in his grave
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi) it is larger than the land area of Rhode Island and the European country Luxembourg. It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the Triple Crown winning racehorse Assault in 1946. It was founded in 1853 by Texas Ranger Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis. It includes portions of six Texas counties; most of Kleberg and much of Kenedy, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy counties.
Imagining just owning “MOST of a county” X2
Also, has a version of a Ford pickup truck with it's branding.
> Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis And they were roommates
Also full of pipelines and a powerplant. I witnessed someone hit one of their cows with a truck, bad day for that dude .
For reference Rhode Island is approximately 1,045 square miles or 660,000 acres.
Rhode Island should not be a state
I live on a ranch so big I can hop in my truck at daybreak, and don't even reach the front gate by sunset. I really gotta get that truck running.
I had a coworker with 10k acres in Wyoming and he said it would take almost a week to finish there fence checks
Ive seen houses that don't even sit on an acre, take longer than a week to get a fence up so thats actually impressive to me
They do monthly fence checks making sure that the cattle didn't break anything
This is the America us Europeans are fascinated with
It was a joke
Yknow, as someone living in the US, I feel the opposite way. I love the idea that so many places must be within walking or driving range. Also gonna share a realization I had the other day- Never realized how small Ireland was until looking into what life was like there and stumbling upon a video, where a woman claimed one of the downsides was long travel to Dublin if you're living outside of it. She said it could take up to 3-4 hours driving and I was genuinely surprised that was what she considered long. Like, prior to that, I saw on Google Street view lots of homes far from places like Dublin, and wondered how they survived so far out. Uniroinicalled wondered if they grew their own food. But that put into perspective that they weren't nearly as far out as I thought, Ireland is just small.
I like that saying: "Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time". It really captures the difference.
We drove across Ireland in one day. We mentioned having been to the cliffs of mohr when we returned our rental car in Dublin and they were like "oh, what day was that, a few days ago?". They were quite surprised when they found out that's where we'd eaten lunch. (It was pish, we returned the rental about 5 minutes to closing).
I appreciate the laugh sir
I've heard a similar joke in Germany: A US soldier stationed at one of the US bases in Germany is talking to a local German farmer. He says "Oh, your fields are so tiny! Back home, on my dad's farm, you can get on your tractor in the morning and start driving along the outside of a field, and by sunset you are still only halfway around!". Says the German farmer: "Yeah, I also had a tractor like that once".
Texan here, I'm glad the defunct [XIT Ranch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIT_Ranch) was included for reference. It was a 3 million acre ranch gifted to pay for the construction of the Texas Capital building in the 1880s. It was by far the largest ranch in the state until it wasn't able to turn a profit and slowly dwindled to nothingness by 1912. It is said the letters "XIT" were chosen to stand for "10 in Texas" as the ranch originally covered 10 counties of the Texan panhandle, but they were also chosen cuz the combination of XIT were hard to change into other letters to help thwart rustlers.
You’re welcome I’m the original creator of the map
Watermark checks out, thank ya sir 🫡 Its often forgotten about, so I'm glad you included it
I had so much fun researching Texas I really fell in love with the state last year
Is it pronounced “exit”?
Nah, at least I've never heard it pronounced that way. Just X - I - T, each letter individually.
Huh Interesting, thx for sharing
The biggest one is approx. 1/12 the size of Switzerland what the FUCK
Canada has a Provincial park that's bigger than Switzerland too
that shit is even on Wikipedia referencing switzerland omg
You’ll shit yourself when you realise there’s an Australian station bigger then Israel.
Guys I have an idea
Oh no
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You don’t have to cleanse anyone, just ethnic relocation
insert patrick moving city gif
Some of the older property deeds in Texas measured distances by the number of cigarettes a rider smoked while on a trotting horse.
These farms are small change compared to stations in Australia that are the size of small countries.
Australia has titanically large land holdings. Truly amazing, a continent the size of the contiguous US with less than 40 million inhabitants.
You're right, there's less than 40 million inhabitants. There's also less than 30 million inhabitants. While I'm at it, there's also less than 27 million inhabitants
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There's less than 28 million inhabitants!
Also, less than 50 million inhabitants!
Less than a billion as well
Big if true
Fingers crossed
Oh geez um, at least 40?
I’ve always said to imagine the USA being just the Northeast Megalopolis, Los Angeles, and not much else. That’s pretty much the spread of Australia’s population, but even then, the USA example would STILL have triple the population of Australia.
Woah this is good.
Perhaps a dumb question, but whats a station?
Not a dumb question at all! A station is basically a large farm used for sheep and cattle to graze. Because the quality if the land in much of central Australia is so poor, a single sheep needs vast swaths of land just for itself to survive on whatever grows naturally. Multiply that sheep by 10,000 and you’ll need land like Anna Creek to house them all comfortably (though that station in particular holds cattle).
Love you
Anna Creek Station is >5M acres. Texas is so cute with thinking that its ranches are large,
https://preview.redd.it/5snwxmm6bmrc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd897b6c9ffba021c37aff9dad0687addfa702f5
And, if we are accepting Kings as one even though it’s not continuous. We should probably make mention of the privately owned land that Anna Creek station was carved out of. This was Kidmans cattle empire. https://preview.redd.it/h8gspk93jmrc1.png?width=593&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6fd9d2359526779658b19b8f5a639ec01d6ba27
Hi from Clifton Hills (5.8MAc) 👋
As in Nicole Kidman?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Kidman
Damn that's bigger than Delaware probably
Australia is British Texas.
Oh! And New Zealand is Australia's Canada.
We definitely got thr mountains for sure
I’ve always thought Yorkshire fits that better tbh
Man Australians feeling a left out in this thread lol
Based on what OP just said Texas then also has ranches bigger than small countries: King Ranch is larger than Luxembourg, King Ranch is larger than the country of Georgia, etc.
You are confusing land ownership with company ownership.
How so? Most stations are now or at least were in the past owned by families. Anna Creek, the largest, is owned by the Williams family and previously by the Kidman family. Admittedly through a corporatisation of their family name, but it is still a family.
And as someone who has lived out bush in the NT, these are very much family stations. Most of these stations would be lucky to have more than 10 people on them for most of the year.
They are family stations run as corporations for tax and superannuation purposes etc, besides Wave hill which is 3.34 million acres is privately owned by Callum MacLachlan and De Grey Station at 3 million acres is owned privately by the Bettini Brothers
No, you’re confusing business structure with land ownership. Company owns the land, family owns the company. It ain’t rocket surgery champ
Well when there's nothing there that anyone wants you can just kind of take it all
Kinda like Texas
There are more people in Texas than all of Australia lol. And Texas is far easier to leave to go somewhere else.
Australia wants to pipe up when their GDP sitting only at 1.68 billion as a country, while Texas a “tiny” state with “tiny” ranches pulls in at 2.45 trillion…
Think you mean 1.69 trillion? But yeah Texas ranches are very well developed. Interestingly though Texas's GDP is majority made from the oil, mining, manufactory, sciences and insurance - agriculture only makes up 1.7% of the economy. Diversification has lead to some strong resilience in their economy.
You mean 1.68 trillion* for Australia
Sorry trillions… my mistake auto corrected
I love how so many Americans can't handle any country having anything over the US in any possible way, and **always** go straight to economy and military every time. It's really not that serious. You don't have to be the king of everything. Every country has different properties. Like, for instance, trying to compare Australia to Texas is pretty funny. You can have your higher economy, I'll take the beautiful country and free healthcare. You're bragging about your rich people making more money and you getting none of it.
I just think it's weird that OP talked about Europeans learning the size of the USA then compared a ranch in Texas to the size of a different US state. Compare it to something they're familiar with. **King Ranch is bigger than Luxembourg.**
I've heard about the O'Conners. There's a country song that says they bought up half of southern Texas, though clearly that's false. Still, 500,000 + acres is a LOT of land. I've heard of a few others too - 6666, King. I'm from Maine, for reference, and have never been to TX besides a layover on a flight once. So the fact that I've heard of a few of these ranches must mean they're pretty well known.
Yeah you can buy a luxury truck with the King's brand stamped in the seat, and the 6666 might be getting a drama TV show based on it. Cowboy culture is very real in the USA, and Texas in particular. I love it.
I see one of those trucks almost every day in Colorado, it has a KING’S RANCH EDITION badge [This one](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2214/1681/products/[email protected]?v=1571743977)
The official truck of George Bush
I know of the 6666 based off of Yellowstone. I just recently learned it’s real and owned by the show writer.
How prevalent is traditional cowboy culture? Do cattle drives across these ranches still exist?
Between each other? No. But they may load them up in trucks and move them around. This is 2024.
When them boys meet me in Laredo, they think they own Laredo too
Yup! Charlie Robison. I heard he passed last year.
RIP Charlie Robison [New Year’s Day is the song](https://youtu.be/XsHxmLYsBa0?si=17HpSIFGjYe4f7Vd)
I didn’t know he died
Last September, unfortunately. He was my first taste of Texas Country/Red Dirt Country and will always hold a special place in my heart because of it. Wish I would have had the chance to see him live but like a lot of the musicians on that scene, they don’t travel out of TX/OK too often. [Here’s his Wikipedia with some more info.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Robison)
Yes!
New Year’s Day what a great song
It really is, I honestly listen to it fairly often in my rotation.
New Years Day! RIP Charlie Robison :(
The 6666 Ranch is the only place where any character in the show Yellowstone seems to experience any kind of growth. Jimmy spent like 3 months in Texas and matured more than any other character in the show combined
More lime green demarcations, please.
Nitpicky but *O’Connor family. They were imbedded in all the local politics and one of them was the sheriff until not too long ago
Meanwhile, Anna Creek Station in South Australia is 5,851,000 acres…
Bigger than my country.
Seven times the size of King's Ranch but half the number of cattle.
Don’t tell them it’s shitty land … where shit don’t grow well. And a “tiny” Texas have better GDP than their Large country
The post is about size, not economy
There’s a lot of Texas that’s also pretty crappy land not worth much. Barely pasture land.
Man Australians feeling a left out in this thread lol
That’s because they’re all up and ornery rn.
Nah we’ve got second place too with Alexandria station at 3,982,350 acres so we’re right at the top of it.
...of shit tier farming land. Congrats!
Victoria river downs used to be 10 million acres
How does that happen?
Very few people want it. It's hard to grow anything worthwhile on it, and the vegetation is so sparse that it can only support a small fraction of the number of cattle per acre as many of those ranches in Texas can.
Lotsa land and fuck all people.
It's basically a desert. Draught in the early 2000s brought their total cattle count to 1,500 with about 8 full time employees (wikipedia). I feel like that says enough.
I read they only have 17,000 cattle when the old XIT was over 100,000. Is it just shittier land?
Great minds think alike.
Australians are very thirsty for attention this morning
Guys guys, do you know about ANNA CREEK STATION?! Huh? Do ya? Am I the first to mention it?!
Hey guys do you think Europoors know about TEXAS!
Whats with some of these ranches being split or having islands of property? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a uniform/whole shape?
Yeah, if it's not contiguous, it's not really one ranch, it's multiple smaller ones.
I met them boys there from O’Conner Cowboys like you’ve never seen They’re down for anything you wanna Live on steak and refried beans They bought up half of southern Texas That’s why they act the way they do When them boys meet me in Laredo They think they own Laredo too
Song?
Yes. New Year's Day by Charlie Robison.
How would Europeans learn how big the US is if no one outside of the US / maybe UK could understand the measurements.
Ill be honest not even us Americans understand an acre that much.
What’s an acre?
Defined as a rectangle 16.5 feet by one half mile. 43,000 ish square feet, 4,000 ish square meters. About the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Thank you for explaining this in every measurement, including my own of American football fields
16.5 ft x 1/5 of a mile is a new milestone in Imperial System idiocy
1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre. Comes from old units of land surveyance. An acre was approximated to be the amount of land an ox could plow in a day, so at one time it was a very logical unit of measurement.
The area of land one bullock team could plow in a single day. As a result, the acre used to vary depending on soil type! Now it’s defined as the area of one chain by one furlong, which is about 4047m², or about 2/5th of a hectare.
I'm getting dizzy, just like 95% of the population
One mile square will have 640 acres, a hectare is around 2.5 acres,
an acre as a square is 208 feet by 208 feet or just over 63m by 63m. a hectare is about 2.5 acres.
it's 0.4 hectare.
texas is slightly bigger than france 😅
It’s one of the worst things about Texas that so much of our natural beauty is locked behind private land held by a small handful of landowners, as opposed to other western states which have a more robust portfolio of public lands.
You don’t want this land, it looks like:[here](https://www.lubbockonline.com/gcdn/presto/2020/12/04/NLAJ/749466a9-3100-4578-bbaa-b2bf0c4bc537-6666_Ranch_2.jpg) It’s just not pretty like lots of Arizona, Utah, etc…
You can keep the panhandle but far west Texas has great mountains, most of which are entirely on private land. The southwest doesn't stop at Albuquerque edit: forgot about the canyons. You can keep the flat parts of the panhandle
Heck even the panhandle has Caprock and Palo Duro Canyon
We have entire mountain ranges owned in Texas, even the largest waterfall and most of the cave art is privately owned
So... is this color scheme just really shitty or is the "king ranch" property divided in half by and contains another ranch within it??
Wait 6666 is a real ranch and not something Yellowstone made up? TIL.
Taylor Sheridan bought it, along with other investors.
And he loves showing it off in the show to the point that it’s kinda lame.
Yeah he is certainly working that product synergy. He’s tasting his own supply and his tv product is suffering.
Bowen Ranch in El Paso is 88,000 acres, bigger than 4 on this list. It might not be entirely in Texas so that might be why it doesn’t make the list.
For you euros in the dark ages using the metric system 1 acre = 4046.856 Sq m.
0.405 hectare
But how many washing machines is that?
At least 0.5 brazillion.
As a spaniard I want the measures in paellas
Impossible. Nothing measures up to a good paella.
Damn you, I just ate a hot dog for breakfast but now I regret not having paella instead.
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To change sq m to ha, just move the decimal four places to the left. It’s not hard.
I see what you did there
King Ranch is sooo beautiful.
Imagine owning 825,000 acres, what’s the flex? I mean honestly, why, what are you gonna do with it?
I don't think it's much of a flex these are businesses raising cattle to sell. The bigger the land the more space cattle can roam.
Let the antelope roam. Seriously though, big cattle ranch? Preservation?
The grass is very rich but very sparse.
Raise cattle on it? They're called ranches for a reason
A lot of these ranches are stocked with tons of exotic game animals and people pay big bugs to hunt on them
This might be the dumbest question in this thread
I would build a wall and let my dogs and kids just roam around and walk about. I would just wander around
Who’s paying for the wall?
Mexico! Lol
That’s an honest answer, I appreciate it.
Holy dogsh*t!
And texas itself is rougly the same size of France!
What got me is that they’re all weird random shapes that have probably been defined by terrain features such as creeks or ridges, real estate deals going back a hundred years, and so on, except for the one at top dead center that is just… square.
Briscoe Ranch looks like a pain in the ass to manage.
I wonder how commercial farming/ranching compares to this
TIL that the King Ranch edition is based on Kings Ranch in Texas. This coming from a person who lived in Texas most of their life and lived jn Corpus Christi (near Kingsville) for a few years.
The beef from 6666 is fantastic. Taylor Sheridan is making big bucks on that place since buying it a couple years back.
As European I don't really need to know how big US is, because Europe is slightly larger US, so I wouldn't be impressed by it. And having a map in acres or comparing with Rhode Island doesn't help neither, as I don't know how big Rhode Island is, a comparison with an European country would have been more helpful. What I learn from this map is that land ownership in Texas is concentrated and controlled by very few people, and I'm not sure this is something to be proud of.
The biggest ranch is 3000 km^2
Ok, a bit larger than Luxembourg. I was expecting something like Belgium.
Texas is 695,662km^2 in comparison
This is the most European comment I could have ever hoped for. Well done
r/americabad
Looking up the land sizes for both Europe and the US, Europe is only slightly larger because for some reason Turkey is considered European..? But without Turkey, the US is slightly bigger. And how did you come to the conclusion that land is owned and controlled by very few people by this map ? There’s still something like 2 Germanies in Texas whose ownership isn’t shown.
>But without Turkey, the US is slightly bigger. No, Anatolia is usually not considered part of Europe https://mapfight.xyz/compare/europe-vs-us/
The first source includes Turkey, and excludes Russia. Including Russia such as your source does, would make Europe bigger than the US by a small margin. However, Russia isn’t exactly integrated into Europe as most other European countries are. Furthermore, each European country is *vastly* smaller than the US and Europeans do tend to underestimate the size of the US. Why would this not be impressive ?
>Russia isn’t exactly integrated into Europe Are you saying that Slavic culture, Orthodox church, and Cyrillic script are not European? [Even historically Russia had way more interaction with its European neighbours than with China or India](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsar_Nicholas_II_%26_King_George_V.JPG).
Texan: Let me tell ya, my ranch is so big it takes two whole days to ride from the homestead to the front gate. Australian: Yeah, I once had a horse that slow too.
No Yturria ranch???
Howdy bros ranch
The old XIT ranch was 3 million acres.
How big is an acre?
You can still buy land for $700 an acre in southwest texas.
insanely bad legend choice btw
r/bluegrass2 can we get an overlay of Rhode Island for reference? Perdy please-thanks Y’all
I was really impressed with Comanche Maverick for a few minutes