Largest Landowners in California

The most prolific landowners in California — ranked by how many parcels each holds across every county this site publishes, acreage breaking ties.

Some counties in California do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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
1	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	22	9,399	2,135,939 †
2	A	1	6,934	32,871 †
3	CALIFORNIA STATE OF	15	5,227	328,748 †
4	B	1	4,635	43,896 †
5	STATE OF CALIFORNIA	23	4,505	238,516 †
6	L A CITY	1	3,523	14,010 †
7	U S A KNF	1	3,354	1,664,759 †
8	C	2	3,330	5,878 †
9	LOT	1	3,088	20,189 †
10	USA	10	2,679	1,401,157 †
11	D	1	2,638	5,998 †
12	United States Of America	1	2,635	533,092
13	STATE OF CALIFORNIA & CALIFORNIA TAHOE CONSERVANCY	1	2,507	1,873 †
14	REDDING CITY OF	1	2,177	7,213 †
15	E	1	2,061	2,698 †
16	CITY OF SACRAMENTO	1	2,044	5,314 †
17	U S A FOREST SERVICE	3	2,025	103,910 †
18	SHASTA COUNTY OF	1	1,990	4,671 †
19	SALTON SEA ESTATES III LLC	1	1,907	669 †
20	U S A	10	1,814	512,630 †
21	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & U S FOREST SERVICE	1	1,778	3,303
22	F	1	1,761	14,674 †
23	S C V W D	1	1,728	11,133 †
24	CITY & COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO	4	1,656	5,110 †
25	L A UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST	1	1,653	2,592 †
26	LENNAR HOMES OF CALIFORNIA INC	11	1,635	585 †
27	SIERRA PACIFIC LAND & TIMBER COMPANY	6	1,453	496,172 †
28	COUNTY OF SONOMA	1	1,452	14,915 †
29	G	1	1,452	2,054 †
30	COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO	2	1,418	24,306 †
31	H	1	1,277	2,386 †
32	ALAMEDA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL	1	1,258	4,313 †
33	SHELL OWNERS ASSN-CALIF	1	1,234	187 †
34	CITY OF OAKLAND	1	1,200	19,730 †
35	VENTURA COUNTY FL CTRL DIST	1	1,144	2,320 †
36	TAYLOR MORRISON OF CALIFORNIA LLC	6	1,138	264 †
37	I	1	1,096	1,066 †
38	UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE	5	1,082	498,942 †
39	SIERRA PACIFIC INDUSTRIES	7	1,036	231,170 †
40	J	1	974	926 †
41	UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY	14	957	8,478 †
42	CITY OF RIVERSIDE	1	954	4,430 †
43	Humboldt Redwood Company Llc Co	1	946	208,637
44	OVERLAND ASSOCIATES INC	1	919	1,299 †
45	Green Diamond Resource Company	1	918	272,006
46	U S A SNF	1	909	381,764 †
47	LONG BEACH CITY	1	906	4,827 †
48	K	1	881	2,280 †
49	PULTE HOME COMPANY LLC	7	846	103 †
50	SAN JOSE CITY OF	1	838	6,169 †

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.

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