No. 37 Mike Smith
283,500 acres
Based in Amarillo, Smith and his family own acreage around the Texas Panhandle plus additional land from Waco to Eastern New Mexico. Smith devotes most of his holdings to cattle. The varied terrain he calls his own is also home to mule deer, bobcats, possums, and more than a hundred species of birds.
Click here to see the 2017 class of America’s largest landowners.
RELATED ARTICLES
2017 Land Report 100: Ford Family
No. 12 Ford Family 783,000 acres (up 158,000 acres) Kenneth Ford (1908—1997) started out with …
Land Report January 2019 Newsletter
America’s leading landowners added more than 1 million acres to their portfolios in 2018. That’s …
Sold! Colorado's Banning Lewis Ranch
This week, Ultra Resources confirmed that the company had purchased 18,000 acres of the Banning …
Passage Island – Seldovia, Alaska
Passage Island was named in 1786 by Captain Portlock. The island was at the entrance …
