Largest Landowners in Michigan

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

Some counties in Michigan do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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	DETROIT LAND BANK AUTHORITY	1	73,152	6,810 †
2	GENESEE COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORITY	1	13,433	2,284 †
3	STATE OF MICHIGAN	65	9,392	1,447,041 †
4	City of Detroit P&DD Care of DBA	1	6,194	916 †
5	LYME GREAT LAKES TIMBERLANDS LLC	8	2,211	467,378 †
6	U S GOVERNMENT	17	1,946	746,202 †
7	CONSUMERS ENERGY	29	1,929	31,350 †
8	CITY OF FLINT	1	1,889	5,070 †
9	HANTZ WOODLANDS LLC	1	1,630	152 †
10	U S A	7	1,537	412,247 †
11	CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY	38	1,371	15,451 †
12	CITY OF INKSTER	1	1,330	292 †
13	MICHIGAN DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION	44	1,296	2,968 †
14	VERDANT TIMBER MICHIGAN LLC	7	1,187	212,121 †
15	CONSUMERS ENERGY CO	29	1,145	14,332 †
16	MDOT	27	1,111	3,800 †
17	SAGE TIMBER MICHIGAN LLC	4	1,089	118,574 †
18	PULTE HOMES OF MICHIGAN LLC	4	936	6,070 †
19	USA	7	819	71,185 †
20	WESTVIEW CAPITAL LLC	19	792	623 †
21	CITY OF DETROIT	2	782	559 †
22	CITY OF BATTLE CREEK	2	779	3,745 †
23	CITY OF JACKSON	1	756	1,293 †
24	DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES	17	755	198,255 †
25	UNITED STATES	5	744	331,729 †
26	CALHOUN COUNTY LAND BANK AUTHORITY	1	705	291 †
27	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	43	668	117,724 †
28	USA NATIONAL FOREST	1	667	286,898 †
29	MICHIGAN DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES	24	664	63,734 †
30	WAYNE COUNTY LAND BANK	1	656	132 †
31	DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES	15	655	34,877 †
32	CERES FARMS LLC	22	630	40,931 †
33	PHR CHERRY PROPCO LLC	1	595	183 †
34	STATE	5	575	65,273 †
35	TOWNSHIP OF DALTON	1	567	990 †
36	DETROIT PARKS & RECREATION	1	558	4,440 †
37	GREAT LAKES FORESTS 1 LLC	7	552	159,382 †
38	U S GOVT	3	550	118,453 †
39	MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP	6	550	331 †
40	STATE OF MI DNR LAND & MINERAL SERV DIV	1	543	168,831 †
41	THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	10	532	91,147 †
42	CITY OF ECORSE	1	524	139 †
43	CITY OF MUSKEGON	1	521	1,436 †
44	INGHAM COUNTY LAND BANK	1	491	120 †
45	CITY OF PONTIAC	1	489	646 †
46	GAP PARCEL - OWNER UNKNOWN	1	464	575
47	HARTMAN & TYNER INC	1	460	30,350 †
48	CITY OF WYANDOTTE	1	459	265 †
49	CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS	2	451	2,423
50	LINDROOTH RICHARD	1	450	61 †

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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