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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:12:30 PM EDT
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Quoted: Anyone know? Appearently Ted Turner owns the more land than any other American (~2 million acres) but it is distributed over 12 states. I'm curious who owns the largest single parcel of contiguous land in the US besides the government or churchs. It's curious also, that he believes in socialism and redistribution of wealth. just not for him. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:12:49 PM EDT
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Reading comp......
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:13:48 PM EDT
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No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here.
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:13:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ted Turner? Reading really is fundamental. Perhaps you still meant it. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:14:05 PM EDT
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Ted Turner:
Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:14:16 PM EDT
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Quoted: No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here. "She's got huuuge....tracts of land!" |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:14:18 PM EDT
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King Ranch?
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:14:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:14:53 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ted Turner: Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner Yay! You win! |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:15:51 PM EDT
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Anyone know? Appearently Ted Turner owns the more land than any other American (~2 million acres) but it is distributed over 12 states. I'm curious who owns the largest single parcel of contiguous land in the US besides the government or churchs. I would bet it is in Texas, I believe that it is like 93% + of the state is privately owned, and a lot of that was/is large ranches. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:16:14 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ted Turner - Founder of CNN. I believe he also has the largest Bison herd in the world. Yes, he opened Ted's Montana Grill to serve as a buyer of his bison meat. We have a couple here, good struff. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:16:47 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ted Turner: Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner lol, fail on me for missing that... I was going to add that it very well could be one of Ted Turner's holdings.. 920 sq. miles.... daaaaamn.... if it was a perfect square that would be 30 miles to a side.... |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:17:31 PM EDT
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King Ranch? That would have been my guess, too. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:17:37 PM EDT
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No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here. "She's got huuuge....tracts of land!" "She's a Princess!" |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:17:43 PM EDT
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You sure ted turner owns the most land? I was thinking that mcdonalds and/or the catholic church owned the most land in the US (With the government being second).
Also , bill gates is buying land at a pretty rapid pace........he bought around 6,000 acres (that's just under 10 square miles) in central Ohio near Columbus. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:17:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:18:31 PM EDT
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Donald Bren?
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:18:50 PM EDT
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Quoted: You sure ted turner owns the most land? I was thinking that mcdonalds and/or the catholic church owned the most land in the US (With the government being second). Also , bill gates is buying land at a pretty rapid pace........he bought around 6,000 acres (that's just under 10 square miles) in central Ohio near Columbus. Maybe most number of individual properties, but not the most acreage. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:19:02 PM EDT
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King Ranch? At over 1200 sq miles it beats Turners 920 sq miles |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:19:11 PM EDT
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Kings Ranch is 1289 square miles, in 4 seperate chunks of land.
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:21:12 PM EDT
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No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here. "She's got huuuge....tracts of land!" "She's a Princess!" "SHE'S A HOOKER !! " 
I woulda guessed the King spread too. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:21:29 PM EDT
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920 square MILES??
Geezus, that's 3/5 the size of Rhode Island. I wonder how he's gonna feel when they want to start redistributing that shit. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:22:07 PM EDT
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Ted Turner: Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner he's too close to the NRA Whittington Center 
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:22:22 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here. "She's got huuuge....tracts of land!"  |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:23:12 PM EDT
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Quoted: Group buy when he dies? Arfcomland is born!920 square MILES?? Geezus, that's 3/5 the size of Rhode Island. I wonder how he's gonna feel when they want to start redistributing that shit. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:23:41 PM EDT
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Quoted: Kings Ranch is 1289 square miles, in 4 seperate chunks of land. King Ranch, located in south Texasbetween Corpus Christiand Brownsville, is one of the world's largest ranches, but only 15% as large as Anna Creek stationin South Australia). It is the largest ranch in the United States.[citation needed] The 825,000 acres(3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi)[url=#cite_note-2][3][/url] ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard Kingand Gideon K. Lewis, includes portions of six Texas counties, including most of Kleberg Countyand much of Kenedy County, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacycounties. The ranch does not consist of one single contiguous plot of land, but rather four large sections called divisions. Only two of the four divisions border each other, and that border is relatively short.[url=#cite_note-3][4][/url] The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmarkin 1961.[url=#cite_note-nhlsum-1][2][/url][url=#cite_note-nrhpinv_not-4][5][/url] |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:24:26 PM EDT
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According to wiki.........
King Ranch The 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi)[3] ranch, founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis, includes portions of six Texas counties,.............................
ETA..........  I'm slow.......and now see the part of the non-continous borders too.
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:26:30 PM EDT
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Anyone know? Appearently Ted Turner owns the more land than any other American (~2 million acres) but it is distributed over 12 states. I'm curious who owns the largest single parcel of contiguous land in the US besides the government or churchs. It's curious also, that he believes in socialism and redistribution of wealth. just not for him. Have you ever heard of a socialist/communist who DOES believe it should apply to themselves? |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:29:09 PM EDT
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It's not Kings Ranch - that four separate parcels. Ted Turner's ranch is the largest single parcel of land owned by a private individual. "I hate that guy" |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:30:22 PM EDT
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Quoted: 920 square MILES?? Geezus, that's 3/5 the size of Rhode Island. I wonder how he's gonna feel when they want to start redistributing that shit. He'll be dead so he won't give a shit. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:30:53 PM EDT
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King Ranch? That would have been my guess, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch 825,000 acres 1,289 sq mi http://www.king-ranch.com/ I dove past it once. There was a sign, "Last gas for the next _____ miles." There was no getting off the highway. Fenced, gated, posted, and patrolled. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:31:27 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Ted Turner - Founder of CNN. I believe he also has the largest Bison herd in the world. Yes, he opened Ted's Montana Grill to serve as a buyer of his bison meat. We have a couple here, good struff. IIRC, he's also trying to buy some Yellowstone bison. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:32:44 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: King Ranch? That would have been my guess, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch 825,000 acres 1,289 sq mi http://www.king-ranch.com/ I dove past it once. There was a sign, "Last gas for the next _____ miles." There was no getting off the highway. Fenced, gated, posted, and patrolled. Doesn't anybody read the thread title?  |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:33:43 PM EDT
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There is also a big difference in owning land and owning land that has any value.
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:33:48 PM EDT
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My Cimmeron Cell Site is on the corner of his ranch.
He raises Buffalo there. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:34:21 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Ted Turner: Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner He comes in the sporting goods store I work at every now and again. Supposed to be a nice guy |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:37:42 PM EDT
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King Ranch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch 1200 square miles but not a continuguos piece of land- So Ted Turner and his New Mexico ranch is the largest private ranch on a contiguos piece of land. You Texan's lose deal with it!!! Flame On!!!
i Love Wikipedia 
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:39:33 PM EDT
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King Ranch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch 1200 square miles but no a continuguos piece of land- So Ted Turner and his New Mexico ranch is the largest private ranch on a contiguos piece of land. You Texan's lose deal with it!!! Flame On!!!
i Love Wikipedia New Mexico is really just the half of west Texas we sold to the Federal government in 1850. 
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:41:13 PM EDT
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920 square MILES?? Geezus, that's 3/5 the size of Rhode Island. I wonder how he's gonna feel when they want to start redistributing that shit. The gubernit only redistributes other people's shit. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:41:35 PM EDT
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King Ranch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch 1200 square miles but no a continuguos piece of land- So Ted Turner and his New Mexico ranch is the largest private ranch on a contiguos piece of land. You Texan's lose deal with it!!! Flame On!!!
i Love Wikipedia New Mexico is really just the half of west Texas we sold to the Federal government in 1850. You Texan's never give up Good Reply
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:44:48 PM EDT
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Anyone know? Appearently Ted Turner owns the more land than any other American (~2 million acres) but it is distributed over 12 states. I'm curious who owns the largest single parcel of contiguous land in the US besides the government or churchs. You post as badly as I do 
But I figured it out....does your the question include corporations? (ie.agri biz,big oil,ect) |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:48:39 PM EDT
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Kings Ranch is 1289 square miles, in 4 seperate chunks of land. Twenty years ago there was still a railroad trust in Texas that was 3x the size of the King Ranch, but they had property everywhere. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:49:08 PM EDT
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Ted Turner: Turner's biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, at 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner he's too close to the NRA Whittington Center Whittington had first option on that land before Turner bought it. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:50:45 PM EDT
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Ted Turner owns a boatload of Nebraska.
HH |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:51:21 PM EDT
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Ted Turner owns a boatload of Nebraska. HH He owns a boatload of a landlocked state? Wait, what?
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Posted: 1/24/2010 12:53:05 PM EDT
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Anyone know? Appearently Ted Turner owns the more land than any other American (~2 million acres) but it is distributed over 12 states. I'm curious who owns the largest single parcel of contiguous land in the US besides the government or churchs. It's curious also, that he believes in socialism and redistribution of wealth. just not for him. Turner gave away 30% of his fortune to charities a few years ago. He may be a douche, but he put his money where his (considerably large) mouth is. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 1:02:46 PM EDT
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940 sq. miles is over 600,000 acres. Fuck. -p. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 1:08:01 PM EDT
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Quoted: It's curious also, that he believes in socialism and redistribution of wealth. just not for him. Turner gave away 30% of his fortune to charities a few years ago. He may be a douche, but he put his money where his (considerably large) mouth is. 30 % that's it? Hell a true socialist would divide it by the world's population and divvy it up equally. Lord Obama demands more than that. |
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Posted: 1/24/2010 1:18:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/24/2010 1:20:01 PM EDT
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No idea, but two families own insanely large tracks of land around here. "She's got huuuge....tracts of land!" This is the kind of humor that keeps me reading GD. Thanks for the smile. |
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