Largest Landowners in Minnesota

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

Some counties in Minnesota do not publish parcel acreage, so acres sums the county's own figure where there is one and the mapped boundary where there is not — marked † below.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	STATE OF MINNESOTA	75	29,376	2,287,628 †
2	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	62	27,792	2,272,778 †
3	MINNESOTA TAX EXEMPT PARCELS	1	22,464	890,566 †
4	ST OF MN C278 L35	1	14,420	911,975 †
5	TAX FORFEITED	3	8,300	343,123 †
6	MINNESOTA DNR CATF TAX EXEMPT	1	7,222	283,012 †
7	TAX FORFEIT	1	6,893	310,356 †
8	USDA FOREST SERVICE	4	5,170	288,807 †
9	MINNESOTA CON CON TAX EXEMPT	1	4,608	182,775
10	MERIWETHER MINNESOTA LAND & TIMBER	1	4,333	197,275 †
11	STATE OF MN SCHOOL TRUST LANDS	1	4,081	155,598 †
12	LAKE COUNTY	1	2,536	97,659 †
13	CITY OF DULUTH	1	2,025	6,598 †
14	STATE - IN TRUST	1	1,977	144,123 †
15	MERIWETHER MN LAND & TIMBER LLC	2	1,964	84,135 †
16	STATE - RLG	1	1,900	495,472 †
17	CITY OF ROCHESTER	2	1,895	8,925 †
18	UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION	1	1,829	61,993
19	STATE OF MN IN TRST FOR TAXING DIST	1	1,644	60,433 †
20	TFL-COUNTY	1	1,507	109,903
21	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TAX EXEMPT	1	1,369	54,345
22	COUNTY MEMORIAL FOREST	2	1,360	116,970 †
23	BECKER COUNTY TAX FORFEITED	1	1,260	72,883 †
24	ALLETE INC / MINNESOTA POWER	1	1,253	39,269
25	WASHINGTON COUNTY	1	1,230	6,326 †
26	TAX FORFEIT - STATE ADMINISTERED	1	1,187	47,196 †
27	PULTE HOMES OF MINNESOTA LLC	7	1,071	226 †
28	THE CONSERVATION FUND	7	1,055	51,315 †
29	USA	7	1,036	286,381 †
30	RGGS LAND & MINERALS LTD LP	3	1,033	32,326 †
31	DRP MN 1 LLC	7	1,023	447 †
32	STATE OF MINNESOTA - DNR	16	1,010	38,355 †
33	CITY OF LAKEVILLE	1	997	3,403 †
34	BLANDIN PAPER COMPANY	4	950	179,291 †
35	STATE OF MINNESOTA - DOT	5	944	3,484 †
36	TAX FORFEIT - COUNTY ADMINISTERED	1	942	29,642 †
37	US HOME LLC	9	926	358 †
38	MILLROSE PROPERTIES MINNESOTA LLC	8	914	317 †
39	STATE OF MINNESOTA ADMIN BLDG	1	912	29,894
40	MINNESOTA/STATE OF	10	820	25,619 †
41	CITY OF WOODBURY	1	814	3,737 †
42	CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS	1	796	398 †
43	DNR-FORESTRY-S F ATTN TAX SPECIALIST	1	783	70,665
44	HIBBING TACONITE COMPANY	1	726	28,961
45	STATE OF MN-DOT	5	712	1,897 †
46	STATE OF MINNESOTA DNR	20	702	29,874 †
47	WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD	4	702	4,175 †
48	RESOURCES COMMUNITY HOUSING	1	647	85 †
49	HEARTWOOD FORESTLAND FUND VIII LP	1	618	24,617
50	MESABI LAND 1 LLC	1	613	17,802 †

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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