Largest Landowners in Alabama
The most prolific landowners in Alabama — ranked by how many parcels each holds across every county this site publishes, acreage breaking ties.
Some counties in Alabama do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.
| # | Owner | Counties | Parcels | Acres | Assessed value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY | 26 | 4,259 | 357,992 † | $810,277,892 |
| 2 | BIRMINGHAM CITY OF | 1 | 2,840 | 4,942 † | — |
| 3 | ALABAMA POWER COMPANY | 46 | 2,782 | 69,432 † | $864,853,543 |
| 4 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 46 | 2,576 | 250,555 † | $621,409,856 |
| 5 | ALABAMA POWER CO | 28 | 2,039 | 79,385 † | $470,697,050 |
| 6 | ALABAMA, STATE OF | 3 | 1,925 | 3,393 † | — |
| 7 | STATE OF ALABAMA | 47 | 1,667 | 40,447 † | $97,811,784 |
| 8 | BIRMINGHAM LAND BANK AUTHORITY | 1 | 1,456 | 335 | — |
| 9 | D R HORTON INC - BIRMINGHAM | 7 | 1,347 | 364 † | $9,921,120 |
| 10 | RAYONIER FOREST RESOURCES L P | 4 | 1,228 | 163,469 † | $685,638,000 |
| 11 | TAMARACK TIMBERCO AL LLC | 16 | 1,177 | 147,641 † | $458,069,230 |
| 12 | JAMESTOWN FORESTLANDS LLC | 12 | 1,128 | 66,118 † | $158,200,000 |
| 13 | GMO THRESHOLD TIMBER COURTLAND LLC | 5 | 1,090 | 92,130 † | $114,441,125 |
| 14 | ALABAMA STATE OF | 24 | 1,038 | 20,586 † | $56,818,330 |
| 15 | RAYONIER FOREST RESOURCES LP | 8 | 948 | 80,316 † | $264,241,390 |
| 16 | CITY OF HUNTSVILLE | 2 | 940 | 7,513 † | $13,700 |
| 17 | WILLIAM B BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST | 1 | 848 | 84,246 † | $424,004,900 |
| 18 | T V A | 4 | 768 | 57,110 † | $59,018,000 |
| 19 | UNITED STATES STEEL CORP | 2 | 764 | 23,191 † | $265,900 |
| 20 | WESTERVELT COMPANY THE | 6 | 730 | 86,535 † | $250,960,920 |
| 21 | WESTERVELT COMPANY | 3 | 710 | 77,657 † | $215,609,600 |
| 22 | ALAWEST-AL LLC | 11 | 705 | 45,196 † | $93,576,640 |
| 23 | CEDAR CREEK LAND & TIMBER INC | 3 | 696 | 101,567 † | $473,594,090 |
| 24 | TVA | 6 | 685 | 54,347 † | $100,910,600 |
| 25 | GADSDEN, CITY OF | 1 | 654 | 2,211 † | — |
| 26 | JT L L C | 1 | 608 | 284 † | — |
| 27 | JRBC HOLDINGS LLC | 10 | 587 | 51,240 † | $251,888,350 |
| 28 | TWIN CREEKS TIMBER LLC | 6 | 587 | 40,571 † | $201,651,294 |
| 29 | EVERGREEN TIMBERCO AL LLC | 13 | 571 | 70,358 † | $228,846,290 |
| 30 | WEYERHAEUSER FOREST HOLDINGS INC | 1 | 551 | 32,793 † | $196,136,590 |
| 31 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TALLA | 1 | 523 | 172,953 † | $330,586,090 |
| 32 | ALABAMA AREA RENTAL PROPERTIES LLC | 2 | 508 | 200 † | $625,080 |
| 33 | BROOKHAVEN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS LLC | 1 | 492 | 487 † | $15,031,110 |
| 34 | CITY OF TUSCALOOSA | 1 | 489 | 4,154 † | $128,186,500 |
| 35 | ADAMS HOMES LLC | 3 | 477 | 97 † | $8,642,740 |
| 36 | ARCHES TIMBERLAND LP | 4 | 476 | 40,903 † | $84,615,825 |
| 37 | SMB LAND LLC | 6 | 467 | 510 † | $25,177,910 |
| 38 | WRIGHT HOMES LLC | 1 | 461 | 471 † | — |
| 39 | D R HORTON INC - HUNTSVILLE | 2 | 460 | 182 † | — |
| 40 | OAK MOUNTAIN TIMBERCO AL LLC | 13 | 449 | 54,727 † | $165,466,020 |
| 41 | INGKA INVESTMENTS FOREST ASSETS LLC | 14 | 449 | 43,303 † | $139,483,315 |
| 42 | DSLD HOMES (GULF COAST) L L C | 1 | 448 | 102 † | — |
| 43 | D R HORTON INC-HUNTSVILLE | 1 | 445 | 101 † | — |
| 44 | NEAL LAND ALABAMA INC | 2 | 444 | 39,383 † | $178,106,100 |
| 45 | HIGH PINE LLC | 10 | 443 | 69,123 † | $175,888,560 |
| 46 | WEYERHAEUSER | 2 | 438 | 40,812 † | $110,558,780 |
| 47 | HOS TIMBERLANDS LLC | 4 | 437 | 42,944 † | $122,360,560 |
| 48 | HTFF REIT INC | 9 | 428 | 64,869 † | $203,684,400 |
| 49 | SERIES ONE OF TWIN CREEKS TIMBER LLC | 10 | 396 | 58,173 † | $97,396,184 |
| 50 | TIMBERLANDS II LLC | 6 | 387 | 50,540 † | $124,923,905 |
Owners are grouped on the name each county publishes. Collapsing spellings that mean the same owner would merge holdings that really are one, and is worth doing — but a wrong merge attributes land to someone who does not own it, on a page that names them, so until those rules are tested against real deeds the county’s own spelling is what is published here.