Los Angeles Rams owner and billionaire real estate developer Stan Kroenke has been named America’s largest landowner, as his U.S. domain extends to an estimated 2.7 million acres.
Kroenke rose on the deal from the fourth-largest landholder in 2025, to surpass California’s Emmerson family in second place with about 2.44 million acres, Liberty Media Chairman Emeritus John Malone in third with about 2.2 million acres, and CNN founder Ted Turner in fourth with about 2 million acres. The fifth-largest landowner is the Reed family’s Green Diamond Resource Company, with nearly 1.6 million acres.
The report noted that Kroenke’s off-market transaction was handled by selling broker Republic Ranches, based in Texas, and Hall and Hall, the buyer’s broker in Montana. No details about the sale have been released.
The Singleton Ranches transaction is described as almost double the size of Kroenke’s 2016 acquisition of the Waggoner Ranch, a historic 535,000-acre landmass in northern Texas. That sale marked the first time the landmark had changed owners since it was founded by Dan Waggoner in 1849.
Kroenke’s most recent purchase comes close to John Malone’s 2011 acquisition of 1 million acres of Maine and New Hampshire timberland from GMO Renewable Resources.
“Kroenke’s ever-expanding empire of grazing ground encompasses much of the American West and extends into Canada,” the report stated.
In Wyoming, he owns the largest single ranch in the Rocky Mountains, the 560,000-acre Q Creek Ranch, and in Montana, the 124,000-acre Broken O Ranch, which he brought in 2012 from the heirs of Bill Moore. Moore founded the country’s largest privately owned paint company, Kelly-Moore. At the time of the sale, the Broken O ranked as the state’s largest private water-rights owner.
Also included in Kroenke’s portfolio is the Winecup Gamble Ranch in Nevada, which he purchased in 2019 from former Reebok International chairman Paul Fireman.
Other noteworthy landowners to make the coveted list include Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, ranked at number 21 with 462,000 acres, including his 165,000-acre Corn Ranch in west Texas.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was listed at number 44, owning 250,000 acres of farmland spread out over 17 states.
Ranked 49th on the list, film and TV producer Taylor Sheridan owns a total of 267,000 acres across Texas and other western states.
Since 2007, the Land Report has featured America’s leading landowners. Each year, the list of top landowners is revealed at the Land Investment Expo in Des Moines, Iowa.
