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King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi)[3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg.[4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946.
The headquarters of the King Ranch are in an office building in Houston, Texas.[5] The ranch itself is located in South Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville, adjacent to Kingsville. It was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis. It includes parts of six Texas counties: most of Kleberg, much of Kenedy, and parts of Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy counties.
The ranch consists of four divisions of land: Santa Gertrudis, Laureles, Encino, and Norias. The Santa Gertrudis and Laureles divisions share a short length of border, and the Encino and Norias divisions are both entirely separate.[6] The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961.[2][7] The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted the ranch in 2019.[8] King Ranch was one of the first ranches to be added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, because of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 which was signed that same day.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ab"King Ranch". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^"Hunting". King Ranch. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^Cartwright, Gary (January 2004). "Showdown at Waggoner Ranch". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on September 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^"Home". King Ranch. Retrieved March 9, 2024. King Ranch Corporate Offices Three Riverway, Suite 1600 Houston, TX 77056
^"Map of King Ranch". King Ranch. September 2013. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
^Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document should be available upon request from the National Park Service for this site, but it appears not to be available on-line from the NPS Focus search site Archived August 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
^"King Ranch". www.tchof.com. Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame | Fort Worth Texas. November 20, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
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